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Background: This study, conducted in October 2017 at two Canadian universities, aimed to explore the relationships between gender expression, protective coping strategies, alcohol saliency, and high-risk alcohol use.
Methods: Validated scales were employed to assess these variables using survey data. Multivariate analyses were conducted to investigate the associations between these factors and high-risk drinking.
Results: This study revealed significant associations between high-risk drinking and androgynous gender roles (OR = 1.58, 95% CI: 1.19-2.10) as well as among self-reported males (OR = 2.21; 95% CI: 1.77-2.75). Additionally, protective behavioural strategies were inversely related to high-risk drinking (OR = 0.95; 95% CI: 0.94-0.96), while higher alcohol saliency exhibited a positive correlation with high-risk drinking (OR = 1.12; 95% CI: 1.11-1.14).
Conclusions: These findings underscore the importance of considering gender, alcohol saliency beliefs, and protective behavioural strategies in the development and refinement of interventions aimed at reducing high-risk alcohol use on Canadian campuses.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph21010107 | DOI Listing |
Alcohol
August 2025
Stress and Addiction Neuroscience Unit, Integrative Neuroscience Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Division of Intramural Clinical and Biological Research, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Alcohol use disorder is a chronically relapsing disorder that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and is hypothesized to result from multiple sources of motivational dysregulation in a three-stage cycle of addiction (incentive salience/pathological habits, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation). One major source of motivation in the withdrawal/negative affect stage is the physical pain and emotional pain of withdrawal and protracted withdrawal that drive pronounced drug-seeking behavior via the process of negative reinforcement. The construct of negative reinforcement is defined as alcohol taking to alleviate both physical pain and emotional pain (hyperkatifeia) that are created by alcohol abstinence following excessive alcohol consumption.
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September 2024
Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Uniformed Services University, and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
Recent addiction research has identified clinical domains that are central to the development and maintenance of alcohol use disorder (AUD). Yet existing psychotherapy approaches are not typically organized around these clinical domains and are often limited in scope. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is an intensive, multicomponent cognitive behavioral treatment that includes individual psychotherapy, group-based skills training, phone coaching, and consultation team for DBT therapists.
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July 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Background: Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are among the most common comorbid psychiatric disorders in patients with adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and adult ADHD is an independent risk factor for developing AUD.
Aim: To study the prevalence of adult ADHD in patients with Alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS).
Materials And Methods: In total, 177 cases of ADS diagnosed as per International Classification of Diseases-10, Diagnostic Criteria for Research (ICD-10, DCR) were included.
Comput Biol Med
September 2025
Vision Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA; Data Science Institute, Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, VA, USA. Electronic address:
Understanding the neurobiology of opioid use disorder (OUD) using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) may help inform treatment strategies to improve patient outcomes. Recent literature suggests time-frequency characteristics of rs-fMRI blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signals may offer complementary information to traditional analysis techniques. However, existing studies of OUD analyze BOLD signals using measures computed across all time points.
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September 2025
Institute of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, USA.
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that alcohol use disrupts large-scale brain network interactions, particularly within the triple network model-comprising the Salience Network (SN), Default Mode Network (DMN), and Frontoparietal Network (FPN). However, few studies have examined how these connectivity alterations vary across the full spectrum of alcohol consumption, especially using ultra-high-field imaging and data-driven approaches. This study leverages 7 Tesla resting-state fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to characterize distinct brain connectivity patterns across heavy, moderate, and non-drinking adults, aiming to identify neural signatures that differentiate alcohol use severity levels.
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