Neurobiological Processes in Alcohol Addiction

• Published in: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research Vol. 25; no. s1; pp. 144S - 151S
• Main Authors: Lê, A. D., Kiianmaa, K., Cunningham, C. L., Engel, J. A., Ericson, M., Söderpalm, B., Koob, G. F., Roberts, A. J., Weiss, F., Hyytiä, P., Janhunen, S., Mikkola, J., Bäckström, P., Ponomarev, I., Crabbe, J. C.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2001; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Subjects: Alcohol Aversion; Alcohol Reward; Alcoholism; Alcoholism - genetics; Alcoholism - metabolism; Alcoholism and acute alcohol poisoning; Animals; Beroendelära; Biological and medical sciences; Central Nervous System Depressants; Central Nervous System Depressants - pharmacology; Conditioning (Psychology); Conditioning (Psychology) - drug effects; Conditioning (Psychology) - physiology; Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone; Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone - metabolism; Dependence; drug effects; Drug Tolerance; Ethanol; Ethanol - pharmacology; Ethanol Withdrawal; Farmakologi och toxikologi; GABA; genetics; Humans; Medical sciences; metabolism; Mice; Morphine; Motor Activity; Motor Activity - drug effects; Motor Activity - physiology; Neuroadaptation; pharmacology; Pharmacology and Toxicology; Phenotype; physiology; Rats; Receptors; Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone - drug effects; Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone - metabolism; Receptors, GABA - drug effects; Receptors, GABA - metabolism; Reinforcement (Psychology); Relapse; Reward; Self Administration; Stress; Substance Abuse; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - genetics; Substance Withdrawal Syndrome - metabolism; Toxicology; Relapse; Toxicity; Peptide hormone; Corticotropin releasing factor; Central nervous system; Opiates; Review; Self administration; Strain specificity; Learning; Alcoholic beverage; Acquisition process; Dependence; Predisposition; Genetics; Hormone releasing factor; Neurological disorder; Withdrawal syndrome; Consumption; Ethanol; Alcoholism; Detoxification; Tolerance; Instrumental conditioning; Stress; Hypothalamic hormone; Locomotion; Sensitivity; Convulsion; Preference; Animal; Reward; Conditioned aversion; Brain (vertebrata)
• ISSN: 0145-6008; 1530-0277
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2001.tb02389.x

This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the ISBRA Meeting in Yokohama, Japan. The chairs were A. D. Lê and K. Kiianmaa. The presentations were (1) Alcohol reward and aversion, by C. L. Cunningham; (2) The role of sensitization of neuronal mechanisms in ethanol self‐administration, by J. A. Engel, M. Ericson, and B. Söderpalm; (3) Alcohol self‐administration in dependent animals: Neurobiological mechanisms, by G. F. Koob, A. J. Roberts, and F. Weiss; (4) Stress and relapse to alcohol, by A. D. Lê; (5) Alcohol‐preferring AA and alcohol‐avoiding ANA rats differ in locomotor activation induced by repeated morphine injections, by P. Hyytiä, S. Janhunen, J. Mikkola, P. Bäckström, and K. Kiianmaa; and (6) Initial sensitivity and acute functional tolerance to the hypnotic effects of ethanol in mice genetically selected for mild and severe ethanol withdrawal convulsions, by I. Ponomarev and J. C. Crabbe.