Alcohol and the Nervous System

<p>Section 1 Introduction<br>1. Alcoholism:  diagnosis, prognosis, epidemiology, and burden of the disease  2. Perspectives on the Neuroscience of Alcohol from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism</p> <p>Section 2 Animal Models:  Neurochemistry and Metabolism of Alcohol<br>3. Neurocircuitry of Alcoholism: Synthesis from Animal Models  4. Metabolism  5. Use of animal models of alcohol-related behavior</p> <p>Section 3 Molecular Basis of Alcoholism<br>6. Molecular Basis of Alcoholism</p> <p>Section 4 Neurological Signs and Consequences<br>7. Acute: Intoxication and Poisoning--Diagnosis and Treatment  8. Acute:  Withdrawal--Diagnosis and Treatment  9. Neurochemical mechanisms of alcohol withdrawal  10. Molecular and neurological responses to chronic alcohol use</p> <p>Section 5 Neuropsychology<br>11. Methods of Association and Dissociation for Establishing Selective Brain-Behavior Relations  12. Profiles of impaired, spared, and recovered neuropsychological processes in alcoholism  13. Component processes of memory in alcoholism: pattern of compromise and neural substrates  14. Decision Making, Risky Behavior, and Alcoholism  15. Motor Systems and Postural Instability  16. Sex differences in alcohol-related neurobehavioral consequences</p> <p>Section 6 Neuroimaging of Brain Macrostructure and Microstructure<br>17. Structural and microstructural imaging of the brain in alcohol use disorders</p> <p>Section 7 Neuroimaging of Neurochemical Markers<br>18. Molecular imaging in alcohol dependence  19. Brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of alcohol use disorders</p> <p>Section 8 Neuroimaging of Brain Function<br>20. Cognition, emotion, and attention  21. The neurobiology of alcohol craving and relapse  22. Compensatory recruitment of neural resources in chronic alcoholism</p> <p>Section 9 Neuroelectrophysiology<br>23. Understanding alcohol use disorders with neuroelectrophysiology  24. Sleeping EEG</p> <p>Section 10 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder<br>25. Neurobehavioral, neurological, and neuroimaging characteristics of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders  26. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: pathogenesis and mechanisms  27. Current hypotheses on the mechanisms of alcoholism</p> <p>Section 11 Adolescent Drinking<br>28. The effect of alcohol use on human adolescent brain structures and systems</p> <p>Section 12 Other topics<br>29. Peripheral Systems:  Neuropathy  30. Pharmacological treatment of alcoholism  31. Alcohol-Medical Drug Interactions  32. Genetics of alcoholism  33. Co-occurring psychiatric disorders and alcoholism  34. Hepatic encephalopathy in alcoholic cirrhosis  35. Neuropathology of Alcoholism  36. Genetic differences in response to alcohol  37. Epidemiology of drinking, alcohol use disorders, and related problems  38. Alcohol and the law  39. Clinical Management of Alcohol Use Disorders in the Neurology Clinic</p>