Overview: Stress and alcohol use disorders revisited

Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 386-390

  Anthenelli, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Alcohol use disorders; Allostasis; Allostatic load; Allostatic state; Brain; Environmental factors; Genetic factors; Homeostasis; Physiological response to stress; Stress; Stress as a cause of alcohol and other drug use; Stress reactivity; Stress response; Stressors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870051051     PISSN: 15357414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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