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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"alcohol drinking"”.
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Neuroimaging Investigation of Binge Alcohol Drinking and Opioid Dependency.
… half of total disability-adjusted life years and alcohol and illicit drug (including opioid) use disorder account for about ten percent each. However, it is generally recognised that clinical practice in psychiatry has not fundamentally changed in over half a century. Better understanding of …
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History, culture and alcohol: Drinking patterns in Poland and Australia
… for centuries those in power have promoted heavy drinking among their subjects in order to achieve their various goals and that this contributed to the development of Polish drinking patterns. There is some empirical evidence that the political economy of alcohol in Poland promoted heavy drinking …
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Wearable sensing analysis : identifying alcohol drinking from daily physiological data
… certain human behaviors such as our subject -- alcohol drinking craving, it usually lasts for several days which could be costing and time consuming, to both researchers and examinees. Previous work in our lab provided a smartphone-client and server based distributed system which does not need …
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Prostaglandin-Mediated Reinstatement of Drug Taking After Alcohol Drinking by Female Adolescent Rats
Adolescent alcohol abuse is a global problem that initiates lifelong addiction. Alcohol use during adolescence is associated with subsequent Meth dependence in humans. Specifically, female adolescents are particularly vulnerable to serial alcohol and Meth use. However, it is unknown if prior …
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Evaluating Sex and Line Differences in Successive Negative Contrast and Ethanol Consumption Using Alcohol Preferring and High Alcohol Drinking Rats
… which have been associated with increased drinking and in turn, an increased risk of developing an alcohol use disorder (AUD) (Keyes et al., 2011, Sinha, 2008). The present study used a consummatory successive negative contrast (SNC) procedure to demonstrate unexpected reward loss …
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MUSCARINIC ACETYLCHOLINE M2 RECEPTORS INCREASE IN CHOLINERGIC INTERNEURONS OF THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS FOLLOWING BINGE ALCOHOL DRINKING IN C57BL/6J MICE
Alcoholism is a complex disease that affects millions of people in the world. While many animal models of alcoholism exist, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to capture every aspect of alcoholism in an animal model. Utilizing an animal model that is reported to produce pharmacologically …
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Social norms: actual versus perceived alcohol consumption of college freshmen
… the relationship between the actual frequency of alcohol consumption of college freshmen (n = 84) and the students residential status. The participants consisted of fifty-six resident students and twenty-eight commuter students. The frequency of alcohol consumption by students in general as …
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A Single Alcohol Pre-exposure Alters Dorsolateral Striatal AMPA Receptor Dependent Binge and Compulsive-like Drinking
Background Compulsive alcohol drinking is a defining characteristic of alcohol use disorder and the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) is implicated in regulating this inflexible behavior. AMPA receptors have been implicated in both goal-directed (dorsomedial striatal dependent) and DLS dependent …
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Risk factors for oesophageal cancer in Uruguay
… is consumed. In addition the effect of diet, alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking on oesophageal cancer risk was assessed.
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Sexual behaviour of grade eleven students in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape
… sexual activity. This study also examines how alcohol drinking, cigarette smoking, drug and substance use affect adolescent sexuality. Lastly, it explores the influence of religion and family connectedness on adolescent sexuality.
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Factors associated with the Development of Breast Abscesses in Women Presenting to University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
… (primary or secondary). Cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking was not a common habit amongst respondents (3.6% smoking and 30% drinking) with no statistical significance. Most patients’ breastfed adlib (79.5%) and all claimed to have visited the antenatal clinic during their pregnancies. …
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Factors associated with the Development of Breast Abscesses in Women Presenting to University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka
… (primary or secondary). Cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking was not a common habit amongst respondents (3.6% smoking and 30% drinking) with no statistical significance. Most patients’ breastfed adlib (79.5%) and all claimed to have visited the antenatal clinic during their pregnancies. …
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Exploring risk-taking and health in immigrant adolescents to Canada: A unique focus on the “healthy immigrant effect”
… use outcomes included cigarette smoking, vaping, alcohol drinking, cannabis use, and illicit drug use. Weighted prevalence estimates and modified Poisson regression models were used to estimate adjusted prevalence ratios while accounting for the complex survey design. Models were adjusted for age, …
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The effects of exercise on alcohol consumption and depression in DUI probationers
… placed by the court system in the Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP). Due to their high risk level, the subjects were placed in treatment programs. An exercise program was incorporated in a VASAP treatment program to investigate the reduction in alcohol drinking frequency and …
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FAS Knowledge of Past Pregnant Women
… the knowledge a group of mothers has about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Mothers enrolled at Eastern South Dakota WIG clinics were surveyed using a FAS knowledge test. In this sample, 90% (N=99) of the subjects reported abstinence and 10% reported some alcohol drinking during their pregnancy. FAS …
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Relación entre rumiación y consumo problemático de alcohol en estudiantes de universidades privadas de Lima Metropolitana
… the relationship between rumination and harmful alcohol drinking in this population. Two hundred eighty students were evaluated (M = 20.50 age, SD = 2.23, 63.57% of women) during the first four years of their professional career, through a non-probabilistic sampling by convenience, with the …
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Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide regulates excessive alcohol consumption
Alcoholism results from an interaction between genetic and environmental factors. However, the neurobiological mechanisms mediating the propensity to consume excessive amounts of alcohol are still not well understood. Using genetically selected alcohol-preferring rats, a well-established animal …
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A Test of the Homophily Principle Using On-Line Personal Advertisements
… such as body type, smoking habits, and alcohol-drinking habits. Results also show that personal-interest variables such as playing music, gardening, and health and fitness do not show evidence of homophily. It was also concluded that females, as opposed to males, tend to seek other …
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