Winners of NIAAA’s Wearable Alcohol Biosensor Challenge
We have a winner! In March 2015, NIAAA issued a challenge to the biotech community—create a wearable, non-invasive device capable of measuring blood alcohol levels in near real-time.More...
New NESARC Data Providing Key Information on Prevalence of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
The NIAAA-sponsored National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions–III (NESARC–III), conducted from 2012 to 2013, is the newest wave of the largest study ever on alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use and disorders.More...
Translation in Stress Research—of Mice and Men
Studies in animals have revealed much about the systems that play a central role in psychological stress.
Anxiety and Depression Predict Relapse
Interventions to reduce anxiety and depression may help prevent relapse in individuals with chronic pain who are recovering from alcohol use disorder.
SALIS Makes NIAAA Monographs and Other References Widely Available
The Substance Abuse Librarians and Information Specialists (SALIS), in partnership with NIAAA and a nonprofit digital library called the Internet Archive (IA), are working to digitize the literature of the alcohol-and-other-drugs field.
NIAAA Activities at the 2016 RSA Meeting
On Sunday, June 26, at 8:10 a.m., NIAAA Director Dr. George F. Koob will present the NIAAA Update at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA) in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Section on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NIAAA’s Intramural Section on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) uses an NMR spectrometer, a device that is powerful enough to resolve protein structures but is also so sensitive that it needs to be protected from temperature changes and vibrations in order to produce accurate data.
Review Articles by NIAAA Senior Staff: Sex Differences in Addiction Research; FASD History
Recent review articles by NIAAA senior staff include one about sex differences in addiction research and another about the history of drinking during pregnancy and the identification of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Marlene Oscar Berman, Ph.D., Delivers Eighth Annual Mendelson Lecture
Dr. Berman presented a talk titled, “Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Perceptual, Emotional, and Cognitive Impairments Associated with Chronic Alcohol Use Disorder.”
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