Conclusions: Alcohol inhibits the hematopoietic precursor cell response to pneumonia, which may serve as a mechanism underlying the granulocytopenia and impaired host defense in alcohol abusers with bacterial pneumonia. (Source: Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research)
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The Impact of Maternal Age on the Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Attention.
Conclusion: These findings are consistent with previous findings that children born to older alcohol-using women have more deleterious effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on other neurobehavioral outcomes. PMID: 20645933 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research)
Category: Alcoholism
Sociodemographic Predictors of Pattern and Volume of Alcohol Consumption Across Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites: 10-Year Trend (1992-2002).
Conclusion: The only common trend between 1992 and 2002 across both genders and 3 ethnic groups was a rise in the proportion of drinkers. There was also a rise in drinking 5 or more drinks in a day (Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics) and drinking to intoxication (Whites and Blacks), but this was limited to those reporting such drinking at least once a month. The reasons for these changes are many and
Category: Alcoholism
Gender Differences in Alcohol Treatment: An Analysis of Outcome From the COMBINE Study.
Conclusions: This gender-focused analysis found that alcohol-dependent women responded to naltrexone with COMBINE's Medical Management, similar to the alcohol-dependent men, on a wide range of outcome measures. These results suggest that clinicians can feel comfortable prescribing naltrexone for alcohol dependence in both men and women. In this study, it is also notable that fewer women than men
Category: Alcoholism
Gender-Related Influences of Parental Alcoholism on the Prevalence of Psychiatric Illnesses: Analysis of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
Conclusions: Interactions between gender and parental alcoholism were specific to certain disorders but varied in their effects, and in general female children of women with alcoholism appear at greatest risk for adult psychopathology. PMID: 20645936 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Alcoholism, Clinical and Experimental Research)
Category: Alcoholism
Every Action Has A Beginning And An End (And It's All In Your Brain)
Rui Costa, Principal Investigator of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Portugal), and Xin Jin, of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health (USA), describe in the latest issue of the journal Nature, that the activity of certain neurons in the brain can signal the initiation and termination of behavioural
Category: Alcoholism
People With Drinking Problems May Turn to Clergy for Help
Nearly 15 percent sought advice from trusted religious leaders, study foundSource: HealthDayRelated MedlinePlus Page: Alcoholism (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Category: Alcoholism
Suppression of alcohol self-administration and reinstatement of alcohol seeking by melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1 (MCH1-R) antagonism in Wistar rats
Conclusion Together, these observations support a specific involvement of the MCH system in mediating alcohol reward and cue-induced relapse to alcohol seeking. MCH1-R antagonism may constitute an attractive treatment target for alcohol use disorders. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory original investigationDOI 10.1007/s00213-010-1891-yAuthors Andrea Cippitelli, National Institu
Category: Alcoholism
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