The disorder of emotional audiovisual integration of addiction

Abstract

The drug cues of multi-sensory have higher reliability and ecological validity, and play a key role in the substance and behavioral addiction. However, the comprehensive discussion on the relationship of addiction and the disorder of emotional audiovisual integration was very limited so far. Reviewing recent studies on multi-sensory integration of substance and behavioral addictions, it had been found that both two addiction groups had disorders of audiovisual integration, especially the negative emotion. Neuroimaging studies found that the abnormal activation on prefrontal cortical during emotional audiovisual integration commonly tended to live in substance and behavioral addictions, suggesting that the disorder of emotional audiovisual integration for addictions might be related to the weakening of cognitive control. Further improvements of the neural mechanism of emotional audiovisual integration disorder of addictions, as well as the more ecologically predictive indicators and clinical diagnosis criteria are needed. Key words: Emotional audio-visual integration disorder; Substance addiction; Behavior addiction; Clinical diagnosis; Prediction