Alcohol and Alcoholism

Editors' Announcements

The European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism, 2008 ESBRA-Nordmann Award
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 611; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn086 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary

Richard Müller

What Are Appropriate Prevention Strategies, When Risky Single Occasion Drinking Is the Norm in the Young?: Comment on Gmel et al. "Who drinks most of the total alcohol in young men: risky single occasion drinking as normative behaviour," this issue, pages 692--697
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 612-613; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn087 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pharmacology and Cell Metabolism

Get checked abstract Claire Taylor, Jon Nash, Ann Rich, Anne Lingford-Hughes, David Nutt, and John Potokar

Assessment of GABA_A Benzodiazepine Receptor (GBzR) Sensitivity in Patients with Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on June 27, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 614-618; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hakan Kayir and Tayfun Uzbay

Effects of Clozapine on Ethanol Withdrawal Syndrome in Rats
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on June 25, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 619-625; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Valentina Vengeliene, Falk Kiefer, and Rainer Spanagel

D-Cycloserine Facilitates Extinction of Conditioned Alcohol-Seeking Behaviour in Rats
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 626-629; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn067 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cognitive and Behavioural Effects

Get checked abstract Suzanne Higgs, Lorenzo D. Stafford, Angela S. Attwood, Stephanie C. Walker, and Phil Terry

Cues that Signal the Alcohol Content of a Beverage and their Effectiveness at Altering Drinking Rates in Young Social Drinkers
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on June 26, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 630-635; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn053 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lycia L. C. Parker, Ian S. Penton-Voak, Angela S. Attwood, and Marcus R. Munafò

Effects of Acute Alcohol Consumption on Ratings of Attractiveness of Facial Stimuli: Evidence of Long-Term Encoding
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 636-640; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marc A. Schuckit, Tom L. Smith, Ryan S. Trim, Jon Heron, Jeremy Horwood, John Davis, Joseph Hibbeln, and the ALSPAC Study Team

The Self-Rating of the Effects of Alcohol Questionnaire as a Predictor of Alcohol-Related Outcomes in 12-Year-Old Subjects
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on October 8, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 641-646; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Features

Get checked abstract Bora Yoon, Yong-Soo Shim, and Sung-Woo Chung

Central Pontine and Extrapontine Myelinolysis After Alcohol Withdrawal
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 4, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 647-649; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn050 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yi Li, Xuezhong Yu, Zhong Wang, and Houli Wang

Ethanol Poisoning Together with Organophosphate Exposure: A Difficult Clinical Diagnosis Because of Physician Anchoring
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 1, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 650-652; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn063 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Assessment and Detection

Get checked abstract Henriette Walter, William B. Schlaff, Otto M. Lesch, Libor Vitek, Tomas Zima, Doris Hartl, Alexander Dvorak, Karin Gutierrez-Lobos, Kenneth Thau, and Philippe De Witte

Breath Alcohol Level and Plasma Amino Acids: A Comparison between Older and Younger Chronic Alcohol-Dependent Patients
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on September 22, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 653-657; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn076 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stojan Petkovic, Slobodan Savic, Dragana Zgonjanin, and Isidora Samojlik

Ethanol Concentrations in Antemortem Blood Samples Under Controlled Conditions
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 658-660; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Treatment

Get checked abstract Domingos Neto, Rita Lambaz, Pedro Aguiar, and Jonathan Chick

Effectiveness of Sequential Combined Treatment in Comparison with Treatment as Usual in Preventing Relapse in Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 661-668; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn075 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gillian Tober, Wendy Clyne, Olwyn Finnegan, Amanda Farrin, Ian Russell Team, and in collaboration with the UKATT Research Team

Validation of a Scale for Rating the Delivery of Psycho-Social Treatments for Alcohol Dependence and Misuse: The UKATT Process Rating Scale (PRS)
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on September 25, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 675-682; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Timothy C. Durazzo, Stefan Gazdzinski, Ping-Hong Yeh, and Dieter J. Meyerhoff

Combined Neuroimaging, Neurocognitive and Psychiatric Factors to Predict Alcohol Consumption Following Treatment for Alcohol Dependence
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on September 24, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 683-691; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn078 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Epidemiology

Get checked abstract Gerhard Gmel, Jacques Gaume, Mohamed Faouzi, Jean-Pierre Kulling, and Jean-Bernard Daeppen

Who Drinks Most of the Total Alcohol in Young Men—Risky Single Occasion Drinking as Normative Behaviour
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 22, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 692-697; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn070 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ping Wu, Xinhua Liu, Yunyun Fang, Bin Fan, Cordelia J. Fuller, Zhiqiang Guan, Zhongling Yao, Junhui Kong, Jin Lu, and Iva J. Litvak

Alcohol Abuse/Dependence Symptoms Among Hospital Employees Exposed to a SARS Outbreak
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on September 12, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 706-712; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn073 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Madhabika B. Nayak, William Kerr, Thomas K. Greenfield, and Aravind Pillai

Not All Drinks Are Created Equal: Implications for Alcohol Assessment in India
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on October 1, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 713-718; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn074 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor

Michael Soyka

Pharmacological Treatment of Alcohol Hallucinosis
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 26, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 719-720; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn068 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nadir A. Aliyev

Reply
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 23, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 720; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn069 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Bruce Ritson

Addiction and Change—How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover. By Carlo C. DiClemente
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 28, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 721; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn060 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alex Paton

Introduction to Addictive Behaviors (3rd edn). By Dennis L. Thombs
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 722; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn059 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian D. Hore

Last Call—Alcoholism and Recovery (1st edn). By Jack H. Hedblom
Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access published on August 6, 2008
Alcohol Alcohol. 2008 43: 723; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agn061 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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