The dopamine system in mediating alcohol effects in humans

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages 461-488

  Charlet, K ^a   Beck, A ^a   Heinz, A ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute alcohol effects; Chronic alcohol effects; Cue reactivity; Dopamine; Imaging; Reward system

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; AMPA RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; ENDORPHIN; FLUOXETINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; GLYCINE TRANSPORTER 1; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NALTREXONE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; TAURINE; VIQUALINE; ZIMELDINE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGGRESSION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; ANHEDONIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; EUPHORIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; RELAPSE; REWARD; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DOPAMINE; ETHANOL; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84868646810     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2011_130     Document Type: Article

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