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Psychological stress and cortisol secretion in anhedonic alcoholic men

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

D. Marra ,
D. Warot ,
I. Berlin ,
E. Hispard  and
S. Dally
D. Marra
Affiliation:
Département de Pharmacologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75634Paris cedex 13, France
D. Warot*
Affiliation:
Département de Pharmacologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75634Paris cedex 13, France
I. Berlin
Affiliation:
Département de Pharmacologie, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47, Bd de l’Hôpital, 75634Paris cedex 13, France
E. Hispard
Affiliation:
Service Médecine Interne, Hôpital Fernand Widal, 200, rue du Fg St Denis, 75010Paris, France
S. Dally
Affiliation:
Service Médecine Interne, Hôpital Fernand Widal, 200, rue du Fg St Denis, 75010Paris, France
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (D. Warot).
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Abstract

We investigated plasma cortisol in a psychological stress paradigm in seven weaned anhedonic alcoholics in comparison with seven age-matched healthy controls. Alcoholics had significantly higher mean plasma cortisol at baseline and no increase following a psychological stress paradigm. Anhedonic alcoholics judged the experimental situation less agreeable than controls. Anhedonic alcoholics may have blunted cortisol response to psychological stress.

Keywords

CortisolAlcoholismAnhedoniaPsychological stress
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Short communication
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European Psychiatry , Volume 18 , Issue 8 , December 2003 , pp. 415 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 European Psychiatric Association

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