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. 2017 Nov 2;8:264–273. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2017.10.009

Table 2.

CUD cognitive case conceptualisation, focusing on recent cocaine use episodes.

Cognitive process Response
Implicit-autonomous
  • Associative memory representations: places/events, people, objects, sounds, sensations, smells;

  • ‘Fast’ thoughts: drug-related low-level cues: sensory images, focus of attention;

  • Autonomic (interoceptive) and basic emotion: breathing, heart rate, sweating, surprise, gut sensations, fear, anger.

Explicit-reflective
  • Episodic/autobiographical/declarative memory: recall of events, knowledge/appraisal of self and facts;

  • Controlled attention/working memory: elaboration, Interpretation, conditional/instrumental beliefs, rules;

  • Elaborated cognition and autonomic response: craving, ambivalence, physical sensations, complex emotion.

Motivational-behavioural
  • Plans and intentions: automatic (non-conflictual), deliberative (under conflict), cocaine expectancies;

  • Desistence or drug-approach: coping strategies, drug seeking;

  • Cocaine behaviours: preparation, consumption, actions, motor stereotypy, unwanted behavioural, complex affect (e.g. suspiciousness), post-cocaine use evaluations.