National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Los científicos han identificado un área dentro de la corteza frontal del cerebro que puede coordinar la respuesta de un animal a situaciones potencialmente traumáticas. Comprender dónde y cómo los circuitos neuronales que involucran a la corteza frontal regulan tales funciones, y cómo dichos circuitos podrían funcionar mal, puede proporcionar información sobre su papel en los trastornos psiquiátricos relacionados con...

Kellyn Maves kellyn.maves@nih.gov Post Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Recipient Kellyn Maves is a post-bac IRTA working in the Section on Nutritional Neurosciences at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She currently works on the protocol Dietary linoleic acid regulation of omega-3 HUFA metabolism; satiety and body composition among overweight female subjects and will work on the protocol...

Table 4-2. Prevalence of need for treatment for alcohol use and illicit drug use and percentage for not receiving treatment among those who needed treatment in the past 12 months, females ages 15–44, by race/Hispanic origin, 3-year moving annual averages, 2002–2015. Treatment Category and Year Race/Hispanic Origin Non-Hispanic White Non-Hispanic Black Non-Hispanic Other Hispanic Percent S.E. Percent S.E. Percent S.E...

March 25, 2014

Each year NIAAA presents the Mark Keller Award to an outstanding researcher who has made significant and long-term contributions to our understanding of how alcohol affects the body and mind, how we can prevent and treat alcohol use disorders, and how today's scientific advancements can provide hope for tomorrow. This year's Keller Award recipient and lecturer is Dr. Edith V...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) have identified a previously unknown gene variant that doubles an individual’s risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The new functional variant, or allele, is a component of the serotonin transporter gene ( SERT), site of action for the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that are...

NIH-funded study in mice merits further investigation as a potential treatment A specific strain of a common bacteria found in most people with alcoholic hepatitis correlates with greater liver disease severity and mortality, according to a new study published in Nature. Alcoholic hepatitis is a serious form of alcohol-associated liver disease, and people with it have high levels of the...

Grant applications and cooperative agreements are peer reviewed by initial review groups convened by NIAAA or CSR. Priority scores and percentiles (if applicable) are assigned to each application based on scientific merit. Scored applications undergo a second level of review by the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Applications that cleared through the Advisory Council may be considered...

New NIAAA job announcement: NIAAA is recruiting to fill Health Scientist Administrator (Program Officer) vacancies in the Division of Neuroscience and Behavior (DNB) and the Division of Metabolism and Health Effects (DMHE). Program Officers advise the Institute on future scientific directions that encourage research in critical and emerging areas, develop targeted programs to foster innovative and high-impact research, interact with...

Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:00

Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:00

You may be familiar with how doctors use pictures from magnetic resonance imaging machines, better known as MRIs, to diagnose injuries and other health problems. But did you know that NIAAA scientists have another technology that harnesses the power of strong magnets to study receptors in the brain that could be targets for alcohol therapies? NIAAA’s Intramural Section on Nuclear...

Laboratory of Neuroimaging (LNI) National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) National Institutes of Health 10 Center Drive, Room B2L124: MSC 1013 Bethesda, MD 20892-1013 Chief of Laboratory Nora D. Volkow, MD Senior Investigator , NIAAA Director , National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Phone: 1 (301) 402-0868 E-mail: nvolkow@nida.nih.gov Dr. Volkow became Director of the National Institute on...

A National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism analysis of data from 1997, the first year that all states and the District of Columbia included Hispanic origin on death certificates, reveals that risk for liver cirrhosis mortality is higher among white men and women of Hispanic origin than among non-Hispanic black and white Americans. Cirrhosis death rates are highest among...

May 16, 2014

Our society is hotly debating the question of whether to decriminalize or even legalize the use of marijuana, and even though pro-legalization voices do not advocate making the drug legal for minors, it is likely that adolescents in more and more states will have easier access to this drug in coming years. At the same time, we are seeing new...

Wed, 04/27/2022 - 12:00

In a new review article, scientists at NIAAA have released a definition of recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD) that addresses limitations associated with prior AUD recovery definitions and lays the groundwork for future recovery-related research. As they report online in the American Journal of Psychiatry on April 12, 2022, Dr. Brett Hagman, Dr. Dan Falk, Dr. Raye Litten, and...

WHAT: In a perspective published in Neuropsychopharmacology , leaders from the National Institutes of Health address how using appropriate language to describe mental illness and addiction can help to reduce stigma and improve how people with these conditions are treated in health care settings and throughout society. The authors define stigma as negative attitudes toward people that are based on...

Administrative supplement applications submitted in response to the NIH Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) PA-20-272 , Administrative Supplements to Existing NIH Grants and Cooperative Agreements (parent administrative supplement NOFO). NIAAA may accept unsolicited administrative supplement applications submitted through PA-20-272 , or linked to a notice of special interests (NOSI), which must be indicated in Box4B of the application. Timeline Unless...

December 15, 2014

On December 15, the National Institutes of Health announced the recruitment of Falk W. Lohoff, M.D., and two other investigators as Lasker Clinical Research Scholars. Dr. Lohoff is chief of the Section on Clinical Genomics and Experimental Therapeutics in the Laboratory of Clinical and Translational Studies, part of the Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research (DICBR) at the National...

Date: Friday, June, 19, 2015 Location: San Antonio, TX Grand Hyatt, San Antonio Room: Travis C/D Time: 2-5pm Note: space is limited to 50 participants; please RSVP by May 1, 2015 to M. Reilly at reillymt@mail.nih.gov. Purpose: to bring together (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) LINCS 1 scientists and scientists from the alcohol research community to explore how LINCS...

July 12, 2019

Dr. Paule V. Joseph has been selected as a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This highly competitive program provides talented, early-stage researchers the opportunity to carry out independent clinical and translational research for five to seven years at NIH. The researchers also have the possibility of additional years of financial support, at NIH or...

Download PDF (396 KB) If you've ever needed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, you may have had a contrast dye injected to create a clearer image. While MRI technology has improved greatly since its introduction in 1977, contrast dyes and the images they help produce have remained the same. InLighta BioSciences, a company supported through the National Institute on...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), components of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with HBO to create an eye-opening documentary, ADDICTION, to air on Thursday, March 15 (9:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT). The documentary, developed with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, seeks to help Americans understand...