ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2016
Molecular mechanisms underlying alcohol-drinking behaviours.
Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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108 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis on the transcriptomic signatures in alcohol use disorder.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Effect of alcohol on Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) blood levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2023Pooled it
- Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Impacts of Ethanol Vary by Brain Region and Extent of Exposure.eNeuro · 2026Article
- Hippocampal Cofilin and CFL1 gene variants are linked to Alcohol Use Disorder phenotypes.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- BDNF in ventrolateral orbitofrontal cortex to dorsolateral striatum circuit moderates alcohol consumption, seeking and relapse.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Identification of Transdiagnostic Childhood Externalizing Pathology Within an Electronic Medical Records Database and Application to the Analysis of Rare Copy Number Variation.American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics · 2025Article
- Long-Term Excessive Alcohol Consumption Enhances Myelination in the Mouse Nucleus Accumbens.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Gut Microbiome-Liver-Brain axis in Alcohol Use Disorder. The role of gut dysbiosis and stress in alcohol-related cognitive impairment progression: possible therapeutic approaches.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- Synchrony between midbrain gene transcription and dopamine terminal regulation is modulated by chronic alcohol drinking.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Intragastric administration of short chain fatty acids greatly reduces voluntary ethanol intake in rats.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Adaptations in glutathione-based redox protein signaling pathways and alcohol drinking across species.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2024Article
- A neural circuit for alcohol withdrawal-induced hyperalgesia in a nondependent state.Science advances · 2024Article
- Differential regulation of G protein-coupled receptor-associated proteins in the caudate and the putamen of cynomolgus macaques following chronic ethanol drinking.Journal of neurochemistry · 2024Article
- Toward AI-driven neuroepigenetic imaging biomarker for alcohol use disorder: A proof-of-concept study.iScience · 2024Article
- Ethanol's impact on the brain: a neurobiological perspective on the mechanisms of memory impairment.Molecular biology reports · 2024Review
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- Alcohol Consumption During Adolescence Alters the Cognitive Function in Adult Male Mice by Persistently Increasing Levels of DUSP6.Molecular neurobiology · 2024Article
- Encoding and context-dependent control of reward consumption within the central nucleus of the amygdala.iScience · 2024Article
- Inhibition of ERK1/2 or CRMP2 Disrupts Alcohol Memory Reconsolidation and Prevents Relapse in Rats.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Association between RMTg Neuropeptide Genes and Negative Effect during Alcohol Withdrawal in Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
The main characteristic of alcohol use disorder is the consumption of large quantities of alcohol despite the negative consequences. The transition from the moderate use of alcohol to excessive, uncontrolled alcohol consumption results from neuroadaptations that cause aberrant motivational learning and memory processes. Here, we examine studies that have combined molecular and behavioural approaches in rodents to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that keep the social intake of alcohol in check, which we term 'stop pathways', and the neuroadaptations that underlie the transition from moderate to uncontrolled, excessive alcohol intake, which we term 'go pathways'. We also discuss post-transcriptional, genetic and epigenetic alterations that underlie both types of pathways.
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