ReviewNutrients2021
Alcohol and the Brain.
Review in Nutrients, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 89 citations in OpenAlex.
- Relating Functional Connectivity and Alcohol Use Disorder: A Systematic Review and Derivation of Relevance Maps for Regions and Connections.Human brain mapping · 2025Pooled it
- Decoding the serotonin-alcohol crosstalk: the role of central serotonergic dysregulation in alcohol use disorder.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2026Review
- The Predictive Value of Tenascin-C, Neopterin and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines (IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-6) in Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Response.Addiction biology · 2026Observational
- Naltrexone and Nalmefene as Modern Psychopharmacotherapy for Alcohol Use Disorder: Modulation of Opioid Receptors and Neurobiological Pathways of Alcohol Action.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Microfluidic device to study spatial and temporal response of astrocyte networks in response to changes in the biochemical milieu.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2026Article
- Relationships between alcohol use and dementia: protocol for an observational study in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.BMJ open · 2026Article
- White matter microstructure alterations from alcohol use disorder persist into early abstinence.Brain communications · 2026Article
- Can Psychedelics help with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD): For now, the data says no.Science academique · 2026Article
- Fractal Analysis of Brain Activity During Risky Drinking in Adolescents and Young Adults.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Alcohol use disorder, but not current alcohol use is associated with falls among people with HIV in care.AIDS (London, England) · 2025Article
- Inflammatory biomarkers in alcohol use disorder: neutrophil/lymphocyte and monocyte/HDL-C ratios as potential diagnostic indicators.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Neuroanatomical and Psychosocial Effects of Heavy Alcohol Use Among Young Adults in Angola: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Promising strategies for the prevention of alcohol-related brain damage through optimised management of acute alcohol withdrawal: A focussed literature review.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2025Review
- Anti-Hangover and Hepatoprotective Effects of the Leaf Extract ofPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sulforaphane and Brain Health: From Pathways of Action to Effects on Specific Disorders.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Brain structural magnetic resonance imaging predictors of brief intervention response in individuals with alcohol use disorder.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- White matter microstructural alterations are associated with cognitive decline in benzodiazepine use disorders: a multi-shell diffusion magnetic resonance imaging study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Study on the protective effects and mechanisms of eleutherococcus senticosus on korsakoff syndrome.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Excessive alcohol consumption: a driver of metabolic dysfunction and inflammation.Frontiers in toxicology · 2025Review
- Volumetric and cortical thickness alterations in alcohol dependence: evidence of accelerated brain aging and clinical correlations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Alcohol works on the brain to produce its desired effects, e.g., sociability and intoxication, and hence the brain is an important organ for exploring subsequent harms. These come in many different forms such as the consequences of damage during intoxication, e.g., from falls and fights, damage from withdrawal, damage from the toxicity of alcohol and its metabolites and altered brain structure and function with implications for behavioral processes such as craving and addiction. On top of that are peripheral factors that compound brain damage such as poor diet, vitamin deficiencies leading to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Prenatal alcohol exposure can also have a profound impact on brain development and lead to irremediable changes of fetal alcohol syndrome. This chapter briefly reviews aspects of these with a particular focus on recent brain imaging results. Cardiovascular effects of alcohol that lead to brain pathology are not covered as they are dealt with elsewhere in the volume.
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