NIH Statement on World AIDS Day 2015
Follow the science to fast-track the end of AIDS When the first cases of what would become known as AIDS were reported in 1981, scientists and physicians did not know the cause and had no therapies to treat those who were infected. Times have changed and today physicians can offer their patients highly effective medicines that work as both treatment...
NIH study reveals many Americans at risk for alcohol-medication interactions
Faye Calhoun Named NIAAA Deputy Director
Dr. Faye Calhoun was recently named deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "Dr. Calhoun brings extensive experience and expertise to her new position," says NIAAA Director Ting-Kai Li, M.D. "I am confident her imaginative and creative leadership will help the Institute address future challenges in...
ICCFASD Spring 2024 Public Meeting Agenda
Introduction on Working Group on Prevention of Risk Drinking in Pregnancy
April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Introduction The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and its co-sponsors, the Office of Research on Women’s Health and the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, convened a Working Group on Prevention of Risk Drinking in Pregnancy on April 23 through 24, 1998, in Bethesda, Maryland, to discuss...
ICCFASD 2023 Invited Speakers
One Drink Per Day During Pregnancy Linked With Childhood Conduct Disorder
Alcohol use during pregnancy contributes to many problems in exposed children. Heavy prenatal alcohol exposure leads to fetal alcohol syndrome, a devastating birth defect characterized by craniofacial malformations, neurological and motor deficits, intrauterine growth retardation, learning disabilities, and behavioral and social deficits. Most women who drink alcohol during pregnancy, however, are light-to-moderate drinkers in early pregnancy and quit or decrease...
NIAAA Spectrum: The Knock-In Mouse: Study Identifies Gene Variant Linked to Compulsive Drinking
According to the results of a recent NIAAA-funded animal study, carrying a gene variant that affects the release of a specific brain protein may increase the risk of developing an alcohol use disorder. The protein, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), affects the survival of existing neurons and the growth of new neurons and synapses, the junctures through which cell-to-cell communication occurs...
Scientists identify molecular events that underlie FASD
Scientists have identified a molecular signaling pathway that plays an important role in the development of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The new research in cells and mice, supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, points to candidate genes for FASD susceptibility and may open new avenues for developing...
Male and female drinking patterns becoming more alike in the U.S.
In the United States, and throughout the world, men drink more alcohol than women. But a recent analysis by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, indicates that longstanding differences between men and women in alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harms might be narrowing in the United States. Researchers led...
Serotonin Transporter Gene Shown to Influence College Drinking Habits
Researchers have identified a genetic factor that may predispose young people to harmful drinking habits. A team of scientists interviewed college students about their alcohol consumption and then analyzed their genetic profiles, or genotypes. They found that students who shared a particular variant of the serotonin transporter gene (5HTT) consumed more alcohol per occasion, more often drank expressly to become...
NIH statement on World AIDS Day 2014
Drinking and Pregnancy: A Review of Attitudes through History
Contributors
Appendix C Participant List
April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Megan Adamson, M.D. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 6000 Executive Boulevard, Suite 402 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7003 (301) 443-4354 (301) 443-7043 FAX E-mail: [email protected] Bruce Allen, Dr.P.H. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science 1621 East 120th Street Los Angeles, California 90059 (213) 563-5842...
E-mail Updates
New Email List for the Alcohol Research Community The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is pleased to announce a new email list for disseminating funding opportunities and other NIAAA information and updates directly to the research community. Sign up here. General Updates from NIAAA NIAAA also offers an information service to make it easier for you to...
Questionnaire
Pediatricians Alerted to the Developmental Nature of Underage Drinking in Special Journal Supplement
In a special supplement to Pediatrics, edited and sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), physicians will have access in one place to the reviews and analyses of current research on biological, behavioral, and environmental changes during childhood and adolescence that foster the initiation, maintenance, and acceleration of illegal use of alcohol by underage youth. This...
NIH Workshop on Psychedelics as Therapeutics: Gaps, Challenges and Opportunities
Agenda on Working Group on Prevention of Risk Drinking in Pregnancy
April 23-24, 1998 • Ramada Inn • Bethesda, Maryland Agenda Working Group on Prevention of Risk Drinking in Pregnancy Thursday, April 23, 1998 - Embassy II & III Time Session 8:00 a.m. Registration - Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Charge to the Working Group Chair: Mary Dufour, M.D., M.P.H., Deputy Director, NIAAA Enoch Gordis, M.D., Director, NIAAA Joyce Rudick...