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Core Resource on Alcohol

Knowledge. Impacts. Strategies.

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Further Reading and Viewing

Selected articles and videos for deeper dives into Core Resource content

Review articles from Alcohol Research: Current Reviews

NIAAA’s journal offers supplementary reading on topics covered in the Core Resource including:

Videos by NIAAA staff and grantees

  • The Addiction Cycle: The neurocircuitry of alcohol use disorder, short presentation (7 minutes) and long presentation (48 minutes), George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA, 2021
  • Alcohol and coping – before, during, and after COVID-19 (4 minutes), Aaron White, Ph.D., NIAAA, 2021
  • Alcohol metabolism, short presentation (20 minutes) and long presentation (32 minutes), Vijay Ramchandani, D., NIAAA, 2021
  • Alcohol and the endocrine system (49 minutes), Patricia Molina, M.D., Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2021
  • Alcohol and the immune system (49 minutes), Stephen Pruett, Ph.D., Mississippi State University, 2021
  • Health disparities (37 minutes), Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, Ph.D., RTI International, 2021
  • Stress and relapse (46 minutes), Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Yale University, 2021
  • NIAAA 50th Anniversary Symposium Webcast, 2020. Presentations include:
    • Day 1 (3 hours)
      • Alcohol as a coping response: Hyperkatifeia, deaths of despair, and COVID-19, George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA (03:34)
      • Age, period, and cohort effects in alcohol use in the 20th and 21st century: Implications for the decades to come, Katherine Keyes, Ph.D., Columbia University (20:48)
      • AUD risk, diagnoses and course in a 35-year prospective study across two generations of 453 families: Implications for prevention, Marc Schuckit, M.D., University of California San Diego (1:20:40)
      • Alcohol and the adolescent brain: What we’ve learned and where the data are taking us, Susan Tapert, Ph.D., University of California San Diego (2:22:15)
    • Day 2 (4 hours)
      • Alcohol’s dark side: The role of stress neurobiology in risk of and recovery from alcohol use disorder, Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., Yale University (01:07)
      • Looking back, looking ahead: Current and future medications for the treatment of alcohol use disorder, Barbara Mason, Ph.D., Scripps College (58:09)
      • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Awareness to Insight in Just 50 Years, Michael Charness, M.D., Boston University School of Medicine (1:58:16)
      • Hope through Discovery—Alcohol Associated Liver Disease, Vijay Shah, M.D., NIAAA (3:05:30)
      • Conclusion, George F. Koob, Ph.D., Director, NIAAA (4:06:10)

Fact sheets from NIAAA

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