Research Society on Alcoholism

Health and Addiction

• Basics of Alcohol Action: Pharmacodynamics & Metabolism
• Cardiovacular Effects of Alcohol
• Effects of Alcohol on the Endocrine System
• Alcohol and Stress: Stress & Drinking - What's the link?
• Neurobiology of Alcoholsm: Insights from the dark side of reward neurocircuitry
• Diagnosis and Assessment of Alcohol Dependence
• Behavioral Treatments for Alcohol Dependence
• Medications to Treat Alcoholism: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

Risk Factors & Adverse Consequences

• Etiology of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Who becomes alcohol dependent and why?
• Alcohol and Genetics: Is your child at risk?
• Alcohol-Related Brain Pathology: If you drink your brain will shrink!
• Effects of Alcohol on Cognitive Function
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
• Alcohol and Adolescence
• College Drinking
• Alcohol Policy

Alcohol Action and Addiction

• Alcohol's Effects: General Pharmacology
• Synaptic Mechanisms of Alcohol's Actions
• Brain and Cognitive Effects
• Mechanisms of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage
• Craving and Relapse
• Dual Addictions
• Treatment: Mechanisms of Change
• Translation from Science to Practice

Risk Factors and Health

• Epidemiology
• Prevention
• Special Populations: Gender Effects and Minorities
• Adolescence: Alcohol Use Across the Lifespan
• Alcohol and Co-Morbid Psychiatric Disorders
• Alcohol and Genetics
• Alcohol and the Liver
• Alcohol and the Immune System

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