Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a highly prevalent, often refractory, medical illness. The symptoms of AUD are driven by dysfunction in several neurocircuits centered on the nucleus accumbens (NAc). Case reports and animal studies suggest NAc-DBS may be an effective harm-reduction treatment in ...
A significant number of individuals with alcohol use disorder remain unresponsive to currently available treatments, which calls for the development of new alternatives. In parallel, psilocybin-assisted therapy for alcohol use disorder has recently yielded promising preliminary results. Building on extant fi...
Speaking in an American Psychiatric Association news release, Aubin noted that current medications for alcohol use disorder offer only "limited-to-moderate" effectiveness, so any additional treatment options are welcome. The new study was published recently in the journalAddiction. ...
In keeping with MAPP1, treatment was not significantly affected by disease severity, risk of hazardous alcohol or substance use disorder, severe adverse childhood experiences or dissociative subtype. Furthermore, there was no observed site-to-site variability and no differential effect if participants ...
Extended-release naltrexone (XRNTX) is an effective treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). We sought to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of XRNTX delivered as a stand-alone service to persons with severe AUD who are high utilizers of...
ObjectiveLimited data exist on the association between per capita alcohol consumption and incidence of alcohol related liver disease (ARLD). The aims were to analyse this relationship and assess prevalence of ARLD in Iceland and among patients treated for alcohol use disorder (AUD) and its impact...
In new research, people with severe alcohol use disorder tended to have greater difficulty forming new social memories. And, while they had better immediate recall of positive than negative social cues, for longer-term memories, they tended to remember more negative experiences than positive ones. ...
Severe thrombocytopenia secondary to alcohol use 来自 Taylor & Francis 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者:Peltz,Steven 摘要: Thrombocytopenia is commonly seen among alcoholic patients admitted to the hospital. Dr Peltz reviews a severe case of the disorder and discusses the causes, treatment, and prognosis. ...
Perfectionist traits—higher self-criticism, and unrealistic standards leading to isolation—are associated with severe alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to the first study directly comparing patients with AUD to a healthy control group. Perfectionis
The paper "Ketamine adjunctive to relapse prevention based psychological therapy as a treatment for alcohol use disorder" is published today in theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry. The paper on participants' experiences, entitled "This is something that changed my life: a qualitative study of patients"...