Research on the neurobiology of alcohol use disorders
By: [edited by] Leo Sher.
Contributors: Sher, Leo.
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604561975
Subjects: Alcohol -- Pathophysiology; Neurotoxicology; Alcoholism -- Pathophysiology; Alcohol-Related Disorders -- physiopathology; Brain -- drug effects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology of alcohol use, abuse, and dependence / Nita Makhija; title: Recognizing alcohol use disorders / Leo Sher; title: Biochemical measures of alcohol consumption / Felice Nava, Ezio Manzato; title: Neurobiological correlates of the disposition and maintenance of alcoholism / Thorsten Kienast ... [et al.]; title: Is thiamine deficiency one cause of familial alcoholism? / Ann M. Manzardo, Elizabeth C. Penick; title: Pharmacogenomics and the future of alcohol dependence treatment / George A. Kenna; title: Acamprosate : elucidating the mechanism of action and its protective effects / Philippe De Witte, Roberta J. Ward; title: Neurobiology of suicidal behavior in alcohol use disorders / Leo Sher; title: Effect of natural and synthetic polyamines on ethanol intake / Norberto Bilbeny ... [et al.]; title: Glial and neuronal packing density in the orbitofrontal cortex in alcohol dependence / Jose Javier Miguel-Hidalgo; title: Ethanol exposure and pro-enkephalin mRNA expression in regions of the mesocorticolimbic system / Milagros Méndez, Marcela Morales-Mulia; title: Importance of alcohol induced modulation of nitric-oxide synthase in the brain / Randall L. Davis, Peter J. Syapin; title: Neural stem cells : a potential mechanism in alcoholic neurodegeneration and recovery / Kimberly Nixon, Stephanie A. Morris; title: Alcohol-induced blood-brain barrier dysfunction / James Haorah, Nicholas A. Floreani and Yuri Persidsky; title: Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity and alcohol use disorders / Falk Kiefer and Christoph von der Goltz; title: Cognitive deficits in individuals prenatally exposed to alcohol / Katy Wyper, Carmen Rasmussen; title: Genetic influences on alcohol use and dependence / Sungwon Roh, Sachio Matsushita, Susumu Higuchi.