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Recent Developments in Alcoholism

Memory Deficits Sociology of Treatment Ion Channels Early Problem Drinking

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Marc Galanter

    1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

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Part of the book series: Recent Developments in Alcoholism (RDIA, volume 5)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Alcohol and Memory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. The Chronic Effects of Alcohol on Memory

      • D. Adrian Wilkinson, Constantine X. Poulos
      Pages 5-26

    3. The Etiology and Neuropathology of Alcoholic Korsakoff’s Syndrome

      • David P. Salmon, Nelson Butters
      Pages 27-58

    4. Cognitive Deficits Related to Memory Impairments in Alcoholism

      • Marlene Oscar-Berman, Ronald J. Ellis
      Pages 59-80

    5. Specificity of Memory Deficits in Alcoholism

      • Walter H. Riege
      Pages 81-109

    6. Ethanol Intoxication and Memory

      • Richard G. Lister, Michael J. Eckardt, Herbert Weingartner
      Pages 111-126

  3. Alcohol Treatment and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-133
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    2. Inebriety, Doctors, and the State

      • Jim Baumohl, Robin Room
      Pages 135-174

    3. Sociological Perspectives on the Alcoholism Treatment Literature Since 1940

      • Norman Giesbrecht, Kai Pernanen
      Pages 175-202

    4. The Social Ecology of Alcohol Treatment in the United States

      • Connie Weisner
      Pages 203-243

    5. The Great Controlled-Drinking Controversy

      • Ron Roizen
      Pages 245-279

  4. The Effects of Ethanol on Ion Channels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 281-287
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    2. Calcium Channels

      • Steven W. Leslie
      Pages 289-302

    3. Effects of Ethanol on the Functional Properties of Sodium Channels in Brain Synaptosomes

      • Michael J. Mullin, Walter A. Hunt
      Pages 303-311

    4. Involvement of Neuronal Chloride Channels in Ethanol Intoxication, Tolerance, and Dependence

      • Andrea M. Allan, R. Adron Harris
      Pages 313-325

    5. The Effects of Ethanol on the Electrophysiology of Calcium Channels

      • R. S. Pozos, S. G. Oakes
      Pages 327-345

    6. The Electrophysiology of Potassium Channels

      • Peter L. Carlen
      Pages 347-356

  5. Hazardous and Early Problem Drinking

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 357-361
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    2. Studying Drinking Problems Rather than Alcoholism

      • Don Cahalan
      Pages 363-372
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About this book

From the President of the Research Society on Alcoholism In recent years, increasingly convincing evidence in support of a biobehavioral conceptual model of the etiology of alcoholism has emerged. In this model, the disorder is perceived as arising from the interaction of geneticlbiological vulnerability and psychosocial risk. Drinking, or alcohol-seeking, is a metric trait. Alcoholism, which is a state of abnormally intense alcohol-seeking be­ havior that, over time, leads to the alcohol dependence syndrome, lies at the extreme, high end of this quantitative measure. Metric traits are influenced by multiple genes; the extent of genetic loading of biological risk for alcoholism would be different in different individuals. Added to this kind of variability is the wide range of options for exposure to the psychosocial risk factors of heavy drinking provided by modern society. Further, environmental prov­ ocation also changes when life events change. It is not surprising, therefore, from the combination of the kinds of genetic and environmental variability described above that there is a wide array of patterns of expression of the disorder alcoholism, referred to by some as "alcoholisms. " In the search for understanding of underlying mechanisms and rational bases for potential therapy, it is important to focus our attention on the final common pathway of this disorder, alcohol-seeking behavior. This series, ever since its beginning in 1983, has been sensitive to the complexities of the interaction between biological and psychosocial risk factors in alcoholism.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

    Marc Galanter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Developments in Alcoholism

  • Book Subtitle: Memory Deficits Sociology of Treatment Ion Channels Early Problem Drinking

  • Editors: Marc Galanter

  • Series Title: Recent Developments in Alcoholism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1684-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42427-4Published: 28 February 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-1686-0Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-1684-6Published: 22 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0738-422X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 458

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Psychiatry, Public Health, Epidemiology

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