Hemin Chin, Division of Neuroscience and Behavior Participating IC: None Purpose The purpose of this announcement is to issue a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit research resource applications that (i) develop a “bank” of brain tissues (fresh-frozen and formalin-fixed) from human subjects with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and control cases with confirmed clinical and pathological diagnoses, (ii) develop...

Esta guía ha sido preparada para aquellas personas que buscan opciones para abordar problemas relacionados con el consumo de alcohol, así como sus familiares y amigos. Fue desarrollada como un recurso para entender cuáles son las opciones de tratamiento disponibles y qué considerar al momento de elegir entre ellas.

Bernice Porjesz, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, and others from six of the nine universities that comprise NIAAA's Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA) report in today's online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (99[6]:3729-3733) significant linkage and linkage disequilibrium between beta brain wave (EEG)...

Recent research suggests that receptors for the neurotransmitter GABA(A) that lie outside of the synapse and which contain a molecular fragment known as a delta-subunit are sensitive to alcohol, raising the possibility that these receptors might help produce alcohol’s reinforcing effects after consuming one or a few drinks. In the current study, researchers tested the hypothesis that these extrasynaptic GABA(A)...

NIH researchers seek to expand treatment options The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will conduct a clinical trial of gabapentin enacarbil as a potential treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). NIAAA estimates that the six-month trial will begin in the first half of 2015 and will enroll approximately 350 participants. The study will assess the safety and...

New research supported by the National Institutes of Health shows how elements of the brain’s stress and reward pathways can interact to suppress binge alcohol drinking. The finding, now online in the journal Nature Neuroscience, suggests potential strategies for treating and preventing alcohol use problems. “This study is an important contribution to our knowledge of the neurobiology of alcohol use...

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NIH-funded research examined over 6,000 children to determine prevalence of FASD ranged from 1.1 to 5 percent A study of more than 6,000 first-graders across four U.S. communities has found that a significant number of the children have fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), with conservative rates ranging from 1 to 5 percent in community samples. The new findings represent more...

Researchers have identified a blood test that may help predict how severely a baby will be affected by alcohol exposure during pregnancy, according to a study published November 9 in the journal PLOS ONE. The study authors, from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Texas A&M College of Medicine and the Omni-Net Birth Defects Prevention Program in...

Assessing the patterns of energy use and neuronal activity simultaneously in the human brain improves our understanding of how alcohol affects the brain, according to new research by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The new approach for characterizing brain energetic patterns could also be useful for studying other neuropsychiatric diseases. A report of the findings is now online...

People with a genetic variant of a neurotransmitter gene may have an increased risk of addiction to alcohol and other substances later in life if they were exposed to childhood stress, such as divorce or emotionally distant parents, and other adverse experiences, according to recent research. The study led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in...

The 154th meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will be held virtually on May 12, 2020. You can view the agenda now and we will share the webcast link when it is available.

At some time during their lives, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults surveyed in 2001-2002 had met current diagnostic criteria [i] for an alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to an article in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry. Many of those persons never received treatment, and many others did not receive treatment until well after AUD...

Scientists tracking the progress of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as they became teenagers have shed new light on the link between ADHD and the risk of developing alcohol and substance use problems. The researchers found that individuals with severe problems of inattention as children were more likely than their peers to report alcohol-related problems, a greater frequency of...

Home General Info Agenda Accommodations and Logistics Contact Registration Recommended Reading Our Sponsors Agenda Day 1: Thursday, October 26, 2017 7:15 AM Registration 8:15 AM Opening Remarks: Dr. Deidra Roach, NIAAA 8:30 AM Welcome from ORWH: Dr. Victoria Cargill, Office of Research on Women's Health, NIH 8:45 AM Welcome from NIDA: Dr. Cora Lee Wetherington, Women and Sex/Gender Research Coordinator...

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Early Childhood Neurobehavioral Assessment for the Differential Diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder Bethesda Marriott Hotel Bethesda, Maryland March 8–10, 2000 The Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and The National Institutes of Health National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke...

Symposium hosted by the Education Work Group of the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Sponsored by: Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and The Office of Rare Diseases, National Institutes of Health and U. S. Department of Education. Brief Summary The purpose of the meeting was to bring the Fetal...

Title Epidemiology and Prevention of Alcohol Misuse in Understudied Young Adult Populations; Military, Workforce, and Community College Contact Mike Hilton, Ph.D., Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research Purpose The purpose of this future grant application solicitation is to balance the NIAAA research portfolio by supporting research on alcohol misuse among persons aged 18 to 29 who are not enrolled in...