Title | Recent Developments in Alcoholism [electronic resource] : Volume 3 / edited by Marc Galanter |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7715-7 |
Descript | XXIV, 324 p. online resource |
I. High-Risk Studies of Alcoholism -- Overview -- 1 Behavioral Effects of Alcohol in Sons of Alcoholics -- 2 The EEG in Persons at Risk for Alcoholism -- 3 Psychopathology in Adopted-Out Children of Alcoholics: The Stockholm Adoption Study -- 4 Premorbid Assessment of Young Men at High Risk for Alcoholism -- 5 Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Neuropsychological Test Performance in Offspring of Alcoholics -- II. Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes, and Alcohol -- Overview -- 6 Synthesis of Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes: Effects of Ethanol -- 7 Biochemical Interactions of Ethanol with the Arachidonic Acid Cascade -- 8 Brain Arachidonic Acid Metabolites: Functions and Interactions with Ethanol -- III. Cardiovascular Effects of Alcohol Abuse -- Overview -- 9 Alcohol, Coronary Heart Disease, and Total Mortality -- 10 Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Risk Factors -- 11 Myocardial Effects of Alcohol Abuse: Clinical and Physiologic Consequences -- 12 Biochemical Mechanisms Responsible for Alcohol-Associated Myocardiopathy -- IV. Cerebral Functioning in Social Drinkers -- Overview -- 13 The Continuity Hypothesis: The Relationship of Long-Term Alcoholism to the Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome1 -- 14 The Impact of Fathersโ Drinking on Cognitive Loss among Social Drinkers -- 15 Alcohol Use and Cognitive Functioning in Men and Women College Students -- 16 CT Demonstration of the Early Effects of Alcohol on the Brain -- 17 Cognitive Deficits and Morphological Cerebral Changes in a Random Sample of Social Drinkers -- 18 Brain Damage in Social Drinkers? Reasons for Caution -- 19 Statistical Issues for Research on Social Drinkers -- 20 Functional Brain Imaging