Clinical Trial: Social Cognition in Severe Alcohol Use Disorder

U.S., March 12 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07464613) titled 'Social Cognition in Severe Alcohol Use Disorder' on Feb. 27.

Brief Summary: With 41,000 deaths per year, alcohol consumption is the second leading cause of preventable mortality in France (Observatoire Francais des Drogues et des Tendances addictives [OFDT], 2025). Nearly 3.4% of adults engage in excessive and chronic alcohol use, meeting criteria for Severe Alcohol Use Disorder (SAUD) (Rehm et al., 2015).

SAUD is associated with cerebral and cognitive alterations, including deficits in social cognition (Bora & Zorlu, 2017; Cox et al., 2018). These deficits manifest as difficulties in perceiving and interpreting social cues during...