Description - Alcohol and Alcoholism by John H. Hannigan
This volume focuses on lifespan neurobehavioural factors likely to determine susceptibility to alcohol abuse and its consequences. The chapters include careful analysis of the effects of ethanol on the foetus, the infant, the adolescent and the adult. From authors that include behavioural neuroscientists and clinical neuropathologists, the topics range from neurochemical and neuroanatomical consequences of prenatal alcohol to cognitive consequences of prenatal alcohol on preschool and school-age children. The consequences of genetics for sensitivity to alcohol are considered in terms of analytic tests with techniques of behavioural genetics and molecular biology. The consequences of exposure to alcohol during breastfeeding are described through experiments with human infants. The alcoholism that develops in adulthood is analyzed in terms of the experimental study of relapse from alcohol deprivation and assessment of neuropsychological impairments and treatment for alcoholics.
This broad but interconnected subject matter is based on research that has applied techniques from molecular neurobiology and tests of learning and memory to clinical assessment and treatment This book answers recent questions raised by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute of Drug Abuse about the role of early experience on susceptibility to later abuse of alcohol and other drugs. Although epidemiological studies can describe the problem, solutions in terms of mechanisms that mediate these effects will be found only with the kinds of experimentally oriented approaches described in this book.
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