Stress and the HPA axis: Role of glucocorticoids in alcohol dependence

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 468-483

  Stephens, Mary Ann C ^a   Wand, Gary ^b  

^a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol abstinence; Alcohol dependence; Brainreward pathway; Cortisol; Glucocorticoids; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Problematic alcohol use; alcohol use disorders; Relapse; Stress; Stress response; Stresshormones

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; ETHANOL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 84868206769     PISSN: 21683492     EISSN: 21694796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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