Neurobiology of comorbid post‐traumatic stress disorder and alcohol‐use disorder

NW Gilpin, JL Weiner - Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol‐use disorder (AUD) are highly comorbid
in humans. Although we have some understanding of the structural and functional brain …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the neurobiological effects of drug abuse: Lessons from zebrafish models

TE Müller, BD Fontana, KT Bertoncello… - Progress in Neuro …, 2020 - Elsevier
Drug abuse and brain disorders related to drug comsumption are public health problems
with harmful individual and social consequences. The identification of therapeutic targets …

An investigation of child maltreatment and epigenetic mechanisms of mental and physical health risk

D Cicchetti, S Hetzel, FA Rogosch… - Development and …, 2016 - cambridge.org
In the present investigation, differential methylation analyses of the whole genome were
conducted among a sample of 548 school-aged low-income children (47.8% female, 67.7 …

Childhood maltreatment severity and alcohol use in adult psychiatric inpatients: The mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

CD Dutcher, AA Vujanovic, DJ Paulus… - General hospital …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Emotion regulation difficulties are a potentially key mechanism underlying the
association between childhood maltreatment and alcohol use in adulthood. The current …

Genetic research on alcohol use outcomes in African American populations: A review of the literature, associated challenges, and implications

DM Dick, P Barr, M Guy, A Nasim… - The American journal on …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objectives There have been remarkable advances in understanding
genetic influences on complex traits; however, individuals of African descent have been …

A test of dopamine hyper-and hyposensitivity in alcohol use

HE Soder, TA Webber, MA Bornovalova, JY Park… - Addictive Behaviors, 2019 - Elsevier
Biases in outcome processing, mediated by the mesocortical dopaminergic (DA) system,
may predict individual differences in the frequency and quantity of alcohol use. We tested …

Behavioral and neural manifestations of reward memory in carriers of low-expressing versus high-expressing genetic variants of the dopamine D2 receptor

A Richter, A Barman, T Wüstenberg, J Soch… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Dopamine is critically important in the neural manifestation of motivated behavior, and
alterations in the human dopaminergic system have been implicated in the etiology of …

Are alcohol trajectories a useful way of identifying at-risk youth? A multiwave longitudinal-epidemiologic study

DD Vachon, RF Krueger, DE Irons, WG Iacono… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Trajectory approaches are a popular way of identifying subgroups of children and
adolescents at high risk for developing alcohol use problems. However, mounting evidence …

DAT1 methylation changes in alcohol-dependent individuals vs. controls

A Jasiewicz, B Rubiś, J Samochowiec, I Małecka… - Journal of Psychiatric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Introduction The dopaminergic system plays a crucial role in the development of alcohol
dependence. Regulation of the extracellular dopamine concentration is driven by dopamine …

An animal model of differential genetic risk for methamphetamine intake

TJ Phillips, S Shabani - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The question of whether genetic factors contribute to risk for methamphetamine (MA) use
and dependence has not been intensively investigated. Compared to human populations …