Full Description
Addictive Substances and Neurological Disease: Alcohol, Tobacco, Caffeine, and Drugs of Abuse in Everyday Lifestyles is a complete guide to the manifold effects of addictive substances on the brain, providing readers with the latest developing research on how these substances are implicated in neurological development and dysfunction.
Cannabis, cocaine, and other illicit drugs can have substantial negative effects on the structure and functioning of the brain. However, other common habituating and addictive substances often used as part of an individual's lifestyle, i.e., alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, painkillers can also compromise brain health and effect or accentuate neurological disease.
This book provides broad coverage of the effects of addictive substances on the brain, beginning with an overview of how the substances lead to dysfunction before examining each substance in depth. It discusses the pathology of addiction, the structural damage resulting from abuse of various substances, and covers the neurobiological, neurodegenerative, behavioral, and cognitive implications of use across the lifespan, from prenatal exposure, to adolescence and old age.
This book aids researchers seeking an understanding of the neurological changes that these substances induce, and is also extremely useful for those seeking potential treatments and therapies for individuals suffering from chronic abuse of these substances.
Contents
Part I. Alcohol and Neurological Dysfunction
1. Acute Ethanol-Induced Changes in Microstructural and Metabolite Concentrations on the Brain: Noninvasive Functional Brain Imaging
2. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Neuroglial Changes in Neurochemistry and Behavior in Animal Models
3. Alcohol on Histaminergic Neurons of Brain
4. Antenatal Alcohol and Histological Brain Disturbances
5. Alcohol Intoxication and Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Basic and Clinical Science
6. Visual and Auditory Changes After Acute Alcohol Ingestion
7. Zebrafish Models of Alcohol Addiction
8. Effect of Alcohol on the Regulation of α-Synuclein in the Human Brain
9. Consumption of Ethanol and Tissue Changes in the Central Nervous System
10. Ethanol Consumption and Cerebellar Disorders
11. Gene Expression in CNS Regions of Genetic Rat Models of Alcohol Abuse
12. Role of TLR4 in the Ethanol-Induced Modulation of the Autophagy Pathway in the Brain
13. Ghrelinergic Signaling in Ethanol Reward
14. Alcoholic Neurological Syndromes
15. Frontal Lobe Dysfunction After Developmental Alcohol Exposure: Implications From Animal Models
16. Ethanol's Action Mechanisms in the Brain: From Lipid General Alterations to Specific Protein Receptor Binding
17. Antioxidant Vitamins and Brain Dysfunction in Alcoholics
18. Serotonin Deficiency and Alcohol Use Disorders
Part II. Addictive Substances and Behavioral Health
19. Functional Reorganization of Reward- and Habit-Related Brain Networks in Addiction
20. Ethanol: Neurotoxicity and Brain Disorders
21. Functionally Relevant Brain Alterations in Polysubstance Users: Differences to Monosubstance Users, Study Challenges, and Implications for Treatment
22. Deep Brain Stimulation: A Possible Therapeutic Technique for Treating Refractory Alcohol and Drug Addiction Behaviors
Part III. Tobacco Smoking in Neuromodulation
23. Understanding the Roles of Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Neurobiology of Nicotine Use
24. Tobacco Smoke and Nicotine: Neurotoxicity in Brain Development
25. Paradise Lost: A New Paradigm for Explaining the Interaction Between Neural and Psychological Changes in Nicotine Addiction Patients
26. Interactions of Alcohol and Nicotine: CNS Sites and Contributions to Their Co-abuse
27. Role of Basal Forebrain in Nicotine Alcohol Co-abuse
28. Chronic and Acute Nicotine Exposure Versus Placebo in Smokers and Nonsmokers: A Systematic Review of Resting-State fMRI Studies
Part IV. Drugs of Abuse and Brain Structure and Function
29. Novel Psychoactive Substances: A New Behavioral and Mental Health Threat
30. Cholesterol and Caffeine Modulate Alcohol Actions on Cerebral Arteries and Brain
31. Sleep, Caffeine, and Physical Activity in Older Adults
32. Ketamine: Neurotoxicity and Neurobehavioral Disorders
33. Left/Right Hemispheric "Unbalance” Model in Addiction
