Further Reading and Viewing

Selected articles and videos for deeper dives into Core Resource content

Review articles from Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

NIAAA’s journal offers supplementary reading on topics covered in the Core Resource including:

Videos by NIAAA staff and grantees

• The Addiction Cycle: The neurocircuitry of alcohol use disorder, short presentation (7 minutes) and long presentation (48 minutes), George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA, 2021
• Alcohol and coping – before, during, and after COVID-19 (4 minutes), Aaron White, Ph.D., NIAAA, 2021
• Alcohol metabolism, short presentation (20 minutes) and long presentation (32 minutes), Vijay Ramchandani, D., NIAAA, 2021
• Alcohol and the endocrine system (49 minutes), Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2021
• Alcohol and the immune system (49 minutes), Stephen Pruett, Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2021
• Health disparities (37 minutes), Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, Ph.D., RTI International, 2021
• Stress and relapse (46 minutes), Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Yale University, 2021
• NIAAA 50^th Anniversary Symposium Webcast, 2020. Presentations include:
  • Day 1 (3 hours)
    • Alcohol as a coping response: Hyperkatifeia, deaths of despair, and COVID-19, George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA (03:34)
    • Age, period, and cohort effects in alcohol use in the 20th and 21st century: Implications for the decades to come, Katherine Keyes, Ph.D., Columbia University (20:48)
    • AUD risk, diagnoses and course in a 35-year prospective study across two generations of 453 families: Implications for prevention, Marc Schuckit, M.D., University of California San Diego (1:20:40)
    • Alcohol and the adolescent brain: What we’ve learned and where the data are taking us, Susan Tapert, Ph.D., University of California San Diego (2:22:15)
  • Day 2 (4 hours)
    • Alcohol’s dark side: The role of stress neurobiology in risk of and recovery from alcohol use disorder, Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Yale University (01:07)
    • Looking back, looking ahead: Current and future medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder, Barbara Mason, Ph.D., Scripps College (58:09)
    • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Awareness to Insight in Just 50 Years, Michael Charness, M.D., Boston University School of Medicine (1:58:16)
    • Hope through Discovery—Alcohol Associated Liver Disease, Vijay Shah, M.D., NIAAA (3:05:30)
    • Conclusion, George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA (4:06:10)

Fact sheets from NIAAA

• Alcohol facts and statistics
• Alcohol metabolism  
• Drinking levels defined
• Fetal alcohol exposure
• Hangovers
• Overdose
• Special populations: Hispanic community, women, underage drinking, college drinking, older adults