Kohnke MD, Batra A, Kolb W, Kohnke AM, Lutz U, Schick S, Gaertner I. Alcohol Alcohol. 2005 Sep-Oct;40(5):339-42. AIMS: It was investigated whether the allele A9 of the dopamine transporter gene (DAT1; SLC6A3) is associated with alcoholism, delirium tremens (DT), alcohol withdrawal seizures (AWS), or the daily alcohol intake.
Kiefer F, Jahn H, Otte C, Demiralay C, Wolf K, Wiedemann K. J Psychiatr Res. 2005 Sep;39(5):545-551. The appetite regulating peptide leptin has recently been associated with craving for alcohol and lifetime ethanol intake. However, effects of anti- craving drugs on leptin have not been studied until now.
Researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in New York mapped out the specific areas of the hippocampus impacted by late-life diseases like diabetes and stroke. The researchers found that decreasing activity in the dentate gyrus correlated with levels of blood glucose. Dentate gyrus is part of the hippocampal formation which is thought to contribute to […]
Echeburua E, de Corral P. Adicciones. 2008;20(4):321-5. This paper deals with the new development of controlled gambling embedded in a harm-reduction context as a viable solution both for primary prevention at school and for treatment of some kinds of problematic gamblers. Pathological gambling significantly improves with psychological therapies, such as stimulus control and in vivo […]
Barnes GM, Welte JW, Hoffman JH, Tidwell MC.Research Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, 1021 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14203. J Stud Alcohol Drugs. 2009 Jan;70(1):134-42. Objective: Problem gambling has been linked with substance misuse among youth in a number of regional studies, yet there have been no large representative U.S. surveys of gambling […]
Ladouceur R, Lachance S, Fournier PM. School of Psychology, Laval University, 2325, rue des Bibliothèques, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada. Behav Res Ther. 2008 Nov 27. According to a report of National Gambling Impact Study Commission (National Gambling Impact Study Commission (1999). Final report. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.), 97% of problem gamblers in the United […]
Leung KS, Cottler LB. Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2009 Jan;22(1):69-74. PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This paper highlights the development of pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments for pathological gambling and is based on a review of the literature published in the past […]
Verbaan D, van Rooden SM, Visser M, Marinus J, Emre M, van Hilten JJ.Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. Mov Disord. 2009 Jan 9. The objective of this study is to evaluate psychiatric symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients and to assess their relation with other clinical aspects of PD. Psychotic […]
Hermann D, Leménager T, Gelbke J, Welzel H, Skopp G, Mann K. Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany. Eur Addict Res. 2009 Jan 10;15(2):94-98. Background: It is unclear whether impairment in decision making, measured by the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), in addiction is substance-induced or the consequence […]
Walker M, Toneatto T, Potenza MN, Petry N, Ladouceur R, Hodgins DC, el-Guebaly N, Echeburua E, Blaszczynski A. Addiction. 2006 Apr;101(4):504-11. OBJECTIVE: The objective is provide a framework concerning the minimum features of reporting efficacy of treatment in the problem gambling field. Research to date has not used uniform outcome measures and it is, therefore, […]
