Detection of patients with methamphetamine dependence with cue-elicited heart rate variability in a virtual social environment

• Published in: Psychiatry research Vol. 270; pp. 382 - 388
• Main Authors: Wang, Yong-Guang, Shen, Zhi-Hua, Wu, Xuan-Chen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier B.V 01.12.2018
• Subjects: Adult; Amphetamine-Related Disorders - diagnosis; Amphetamine-Related Disorders - physiopathology; Amphetamine-Related Disorders - psychology; Craving - drug effects; Craving - physiology; Cue-induced craving; Cues; Electrocardiography - drug effects; Electrocardiography - methods; Heart Rate - drug effects; Heart Rate - physiology; Heart rate variability; Humans; Male; Methamphetamine; Methamphetamine - adverse effects; Middle Aged; Photic Stimulation - methods; Social Environment; Supervised machine learning; Virtual Reality; Cue-induced craving; Supervised machine learning; Heart rate variability; Methamphetamine; Virtual reality

•A methamphetamine-related virtual social environment (METH-VSE) was developed.•Patients with METH dependence showed a greater HRV under METH-VSE.•Normal controls showed a smaller HRV under METH-VSE.•HRV features predicted patients with METH dependence accurately. In the present study, we developed...