The annual cost of AUD and alcohol-related disorders is ~$250 billion5. It has been recognized for a long time that damage to the brain inflicted by chronic alcohol use is severe and affects major domains of human life. In accordance to DSM-V, AUD is characterized by pervasive impairment ...
Correspondingly, alcohol use disorder (AUD) has become one of the most prominent psychiatric disorders with significant economic and social burden. Epigenetic factors have emerged as key players in the development and maintenance of addiction. Recent studies have highlighted alcohol-induced alterations in...
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a major health and social problem worldwide. Brain stimulation holds great promise as an investigational tool to help us understand the pathophysiology of alcohol dependence and as a therapeutic tool to treat AUDs. Numerous studies suggest that glutamatergic, gamma-...
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a major health and social problem worldwide. Brain stimulation holds great promise as an investigational tool to help us understand the pathophysiology of alcohol dependence and as a therapeutic tool to treat AUDs. Numerous studies suggest that glutamatergic, gamma-am...
Interlinked changes in drinking behavior, mood, and the brain among women and men during recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) have been clarified in a new study in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. AUD recovery was already known to be m
Alcohol use disorder has the widest treatment gap (i.e., proportion of untreated patients) of all mental disorders; only one in five of those with alcohol use disorder will seek treatment.6,11Many people avoid treatment because they feel there is a stigma surrounding the disorder.12Support gro...
Some will start to drink too much to compensate for mental health disorders which are really at the centre of the issue. In the absence of other solutions, e.g. a medical diagnosis of non-complex anxiety or depression disorders, or an issue with coping skills or isolation/loss of connection...
The current study examined the relationship between severity of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and the neural circuits that underlie response inhibition and error monitoring. In addition, we explored pre- and post-inhibition trial processes to determine the potential causal mechanisms responsible for disinh...
Diagnosing alcohol use disorderEven though alcohol related disorders are very common, relatively few individuals recognize the problem and get help. Therefore, screening is very important, whether primary care physicians or friends and family do it....
and alcoholism. Despite physicians' awareness of the importance of screening and probing for alcohol use disorders, one problem that might explain the failure of screening to become routine could be that physicians "aren't sure what to do once they obtain a history" that suggests a problem, Dr...