Cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms of alcohol-related aggression

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 400-413

  Heinz, Adrienne J ^a   Beck, Anne ^b   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^b   Sterzer, Philipp ^c   Heinz, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL RELATED AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DOPAMINE RELEASE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MEMORY; MYOPIA; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79959378884     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3042     Document Type: Review

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