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Karoly HC, Kirk‐Provencher KT, Schacht JP, Gowin JL. Alcohol and brain structure across the lifespan: A systematic review of large-scale neuroimaging studies. Addict Biol 2024; 29:e13439. [PMID: 39317645 PMCID: PMC11421948 DOI: 10.1111/adb.13439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 08/29/2024] [Accepted: 09/01/2024] [Indexed: 09/26/2024]
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Alcohol exposure affects brain structure, but the extent to which its effects differ across development remains unclear. Several countries are considering changes to recommended guidelines for alcohol consumption, so high-quality evidence is needed. Many studies have been conducted among small samples, but recent efforts have been made to acquire large samples to characterize alcohol's effects on the brain on a population level. Several large-scale consortia have acquired such samples, but this evidence has not been synthesized across the lifespan. We conducted a systematic review of large-scale neuroimaging studies examining effects of alcohol exposure on brain structure at multiple developmental stages. We included studies with an alcohol-exposed sample of at least N = 100 from the following consortia: ABCD, ENIGMA, NCANDA, IMAGEN, Framingham Offspring Study, HCP and UK BioBank. Twenty-seven studies were included, examining prenatal (N = 1), adolescent (N = 9), low-to-moderate-level adult (N = 11) and heavy adult (N = 7) exposure. Prenatal exposure was associated with greater brain volume at ages 9-10, but contemporaneous alcohol consumption during adolescence and adulthood was associated with smaller volume/thickness. Both low-to-moderate consumption and heavy consumption were characterized by smaller volume and thickness in frontal, temporal and parietal regions, and reductions in insula, cingulate and subcortical structures. Adolescent consumption had similar effects, with less consistent evidence for smaller cingulate, insula and subcortical volume. In sum, prenatal exposure was associated with larger volume, while adolescent and adult alcohol exposure was associated with smaller volume and thickness, suggesting that regional patterns of effects of alcohol are similar in adolescence and adulthood.
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- Hollis C. Karoly
- Department of PsychologyColorado State UniversityFort CollinsColoradoUSA
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- Department of Radiology, School of MedicineUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusAuroraColoradoUSA
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- Department of Psychiatry, School of MedicineUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusAuroraColoradoUSA
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- Department of Radiology, School of MedicineUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusAuroraColoradoUSA
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Zhang M, Sun X, Cui C, Tan J, Ren X, Dai Q. Resilience mediates the prediction of alienation towards parents on subjective well-being in rural left-behind children: a 12-month longitudinal study. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1414575. [PMID: 39050913 PMCID: PMC11267484 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1414575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 06/19/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024] Open
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Objective Parent-child relationship is critical for children's well-being. In China, the large number of left-behind children (LBC, one or both parents leaving for work for at least 6 months) raises public concern. Although LBC often report poor mental health status and higher alienation towards parents, the dynamic trend of subjective well-being in this population, as well as the prediction of alienation towards parents on LBC's subjective well-being, remain unrevealed. This study aimed to examine the dynamic trend of subjective well-being in Chinese LBC and further explore the predictional influence of alienation towards parents, with resilience as a potential mediator. Methods We recruited 916 rural LBC in China and investigated them at five waves (baseline, and 1, 3, 6, and 12 months later) using Inventory of Alienation towards Parents (IAP), Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents (RSCA) and Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS). We used hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) for analysis. Results At baseline, no significant differences were found in the scores of alienation towards parents, resilience, and subjective well-being on gender, grade, or type of LBC. A significant correlation existed between the scores of alienation towards parents, resilience, and subjective well-being. HLM showed a linear increase in the subjective well-being of rural LBC. Alienation toward both mother and father negatively predicted the developmental trajectory of children's subjective well-being over 12 months. Moreover, resilience partially mediated this prediction. Conclusion This study is among the first to reveal that alienation towards parents predicts the developmental trajectory of later LBC's subjective well-being, with resilience as a mediator. These findings warrant the necessity of paying attention to alienation toward parents to ensure the mental health of LBC, giving valuable guidance to parents, schools and governments.
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- Mengjia Zhang
- Department of Medical Psychology, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- The third Recuperation Department of Naval Special Servicemen Recuperation Center of People's Liberation Army, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Radiological Department, The Xinqiao Hospital of the Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
- School of Public Policy and Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
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- Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Medical Psychology, Army Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Powell A, Sumnall H, Smith J, Kuiper R, Montgomery C. Recovery of neuropsychological function following abstinence from alcohol in adults diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder: Systematic review of longitudinal studies. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0296043. [PMID: 38166127 PMCID: PMC10760842 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 01/04/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Alcohol use disorders (AUD) associate with structural and functional brain differences, including impairments in neuropsychological function; however, reviews (mostly cross-sectional) are inconsistent with regards to recovery of such functions following abstinence. Recovery is important, as these impairments associate with treatment outcomes and quality of life. OBJECTIVE(S) To assess neuropsychological function recovery following abstinence in individuals with a clinical AUD diagnosis. The secondary objective was to assess predictors of neuropsychological recovery in AUD. METHODS Following the preregistered protocol (PROSPERO: CRD42022308686), APA PsycInfo, EBSCO MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Web of Science Core Collection were searched between 1999-2022. Study reporting follows the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Manual for Evidence Synthesis, study quality was assessed using the JBI Checklist for Cohort Studies. Eligible studies were those with a longitudinal design that assessed neuropsychological recovery following abstinence from alcohol in adults with a clinical diagnosis of AUD. Studies were excluded if participant group was defined by another or co-morbid condition/injury, or by relapse. Recovery was defined as function reaching 'normal' performance. RESULTS Sixteen studies (AUD n = 783, controls n = 390) were selected for narrative synthesis. Most functions demonstrated recovery within 6-12 months, including sub-domains within attention, executive function, perception, and memory, though basic processing speed and working memory updating/tracking recovered earlier. Additionally, verbal fluency was not impaired at baseline (while verbal function was not assessed compared to normal levels), and concept formation and reasoning recovery was inconsistent. CONCLUSIONS These results provide evidence that recovery of most functions is possible. While overall robustness of results was good, methodological limitations included lack of control groups, additional methods to self-report to confirm abstinence, description/control for attrition, statistical control of confounds, and of long enough study durations to capture change.
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- Anna Powell
- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Public Health Institute, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Public Health Institute, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Liverpool Centre for Alcohol Research, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Staudt J, Kok T, de Haan HA, Walvoort SJW, Egger JIM. Neurocognitive Recovery in Abstinent Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder: A Scoping Review for Associated Factors. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2023; 19:2039-2054. [PMID: 37790802 PMCID: PMC10544223 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s424017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/05/2023] Open
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Objective Studies have reported inconsistent results regarding the extent to which neurocognitive recovery occurs in abstinent patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD). In addition to abstinence, other factors may have influenced this process and contributed to the inconsistencies. This review examines the factors investigated in this regard and describes the possible influence of each factor based on the evidence collected. Methodology PubMed was systematically searched for articles published between January 2000 and July 2023. Longitudinal humane studies investigating neurocognitive recovery in abstinent adult AUD patients were included. Studies with a cross-sectional design were excluded, as were studies that did not classify AUD according to the DSM-IV or 5 criteria, only examined binge use, did not report neuropsychological outcomes or duration of abstinence, or where neurological disorders were present. Results Sixteen categories of factors were distinguished from 31 full-text articles. Consistent patterns were found, indicating an association between neurocognitive recovery and the "smoking" and 'brain volume" factors. Consistent patterns were also found indicating that there is no relationship with "quantities of alcohol used" and "education level." A similar consistent pattern was also found for "polysubstance use", "gender" and "verbal reading", but the number of studies is considered limited. The association with "age" is studied frequently but with inconsistent findings. The remaining eight factors were regarded as understudied. Conclusion The clearest patterns emerging from the evidence are a predominantly negative influence of smoking on neurocognitive recovery, associations between changes in brain area volume and neurocognitive recovery, and no association between neurocognitive recovery and the amount of alcohol consumed, as measured by self-report, nor with educational attainment. Future research on the understudied factors and factors with inconsistent evidence is needed, preferably through longitudinal designs with multiple assessment periods starting after at least two weeks of abstinence.
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- Jeroen Staudt
- Tactus Addiction Treatment, Deventer, the Netherlands
- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Tactus Addiction Treatment, Deventer, the Netherlands
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- Tactus Addiction Treatment, Deventer, the Netherlands
- Nijmegen Institute for Scientist Practitioners in Addiction, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Centre of Excellence for Korsakoff and Alcohol Related Cognitive Disorders, Vincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Venray, the Netherlands
- Centre of Excellence for Neuropsychiatry, Vincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Venray, the Netherlands
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Martelli C, Artiges E, Miranda R, Romeo B, Petillion A, Aubin HJ, Amirouche A, Chanraud S, Benyamina A, Martinot JL. Caudate gray matter volumes and risk of relapse in Type A alcohol-dependent patients: A 7-year MRI follow-up study. Front Psychiatry 2023; 14:1067326. [PMID: 36873223 PMCID: PMC9975333 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1067326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/17/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Whether alteration in regional brain volumes can be detected in Type A alcoholics both at baseline and after a long follow-up remains to be confirmed. Therefore, we examined volume alterations at baseline, and longitudinal changes in a small follow-up subsample. METHODS In total of 26 patients and 24 healthy controls were assessed at baseline using magnetic resonance imaging and voxel-based morphometry, among which 17 patients and 6 controls were re-evaluated 7 years later. At baseline, regional cerebral volumes of patients were compared to controls. At follow-up, three groups were compared: abstainers (n = 11, more than 2 years of abstinence), relapsers (n = 6, <2 years of abstinence), and controls (n = 6). RESULTS The cross-sectional analyses detected, at both times, higher caudate nuclei volumes bilaterally in relapsers compared to abstainers. In abstainers, the longitudinal analysis indicated recovery of normal gray matter volumes in the middle and inferior frontal gyrus, and in the middle cingulate, while white matter volumes recovery was detected in the corpus callosum and in anterior and superior white matter specific regions. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the present investigation revealed larger caudate nuclei in the relapser AUD patient group both at baseline and at follow-up in the cross-sectional analyses. This finding suggest that a higher caudate volume could be a candidate risk factor of relapse. In patients with specific type A alcohol-dependence, we showed that long-term recovery in fronto-striato-limbic GM and WM volumes occurs during long-term abstinence. These results support the crucial role of frontal circuitry in AUD.
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- Catherine Martelli
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Research Unit 1299 "Trajectoires développementales en psychiatrie", École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Research Unit 1299 "Trajectoires développementales en psychiatrie", École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Department of Psychiatry, Établissement Public de Santé (EPS) Barthélemy Durand, Etampes, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Research Unit 1299 "Trajectoires développementales en psychiatrie", École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Research Unit 1018, Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP), Paris, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) Research University-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris, France.,Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d'Aquitaine (INCIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 5287, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Paul-Brousse Hospital, Villejuif, France.,Psychiatry-Comorbidities-Addictions Research Unit (PSYCOMADD), Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) Research Unit 1299 "Trajectoires développementales en psychiatrie", École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 9010, Centre Borelli, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Deterioro cognitivo y recuperación espontánea en pacientes con diagnóstico de Consumo Perjudicial o Síndrome de Dependencia Alcohólico. REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE PSICOLOGÍA 2020. [DOI: 10.33881/2027-1786.rip.13315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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El objetivo de este trabajo era conocer el alcance del deterioro de las funciones cognitivas debido al consumo abusivo de alcohol y su posible recuperación espontánea, así como observar la evolución temporal de esta recuperación, desde el inicio hasta los 24 meses de la abstinencia. Participaron voluntariamente 100 pacientes de ambos sexos, en tratamiento de deshabituación de consumo perjudicial o síndrome de dependencia alcohólico, agrupados en cohortes según tiempo de abstinencia. El grupo control estuvo formado por 20 personas sin antecedentes de alcoholismo, equiparadas con los pacientes en las variables edad, sexo y nivel de estudios. Los datos socio-demográficos y clínicos se recogieron con una anamnesis protocolizada, mientras que para evaluar el deterioro cognitivo se emplearon el Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) y el Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA), en sus versiones al español. Para cada participante se obtuvieron 8 variables clínicas y socio-demográficas y 27 variables cognitivas. Se observaron diferencias significativas entre las medidas de las mismas variables cognitivas proporcionadas por ambos instrumentos, siendo más discriminativo el MOCA. Los resultados mostraron que el deterioro y la recuperación espontánea varían para las distintas funciones cognitivas y que los cambios más significativos se dan seis meses después de iniciada la deshabituación y entre los 18 y 24 meses. En base a la evidencia obtenida, atención, memoria y lenguaje se perfilan como las funciones más susceptibles de beneficiarse de un programa de rehabilitación cognitiva, que convendría implementar entre los 6 y 18 meses de abstinencia.
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Orum MH, Kalenderoglu A. Decreases in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness correlates with cumulative alcohol intake. J Addict Dis 2020; 38:400-410. [DOI: 10.1080/10550887.2020.1776083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Department of Psychiatry, Adiyaman University, Faculty of Medicine, Adiyaman, Turkey
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Regional Differences in Municipal Solid Waste Collection Quantities in China. SUSTAINABILITY 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/su11154113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The rapid growth in urban population has led to a dramatic increase in municipal solid waste (MSW) generation, with ramifications more pronounced in developing countries. The regional Chinese governments have made great efforts to reduce MSW generation and collection quantities. However, the results of these efforts vary across cities. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the regional differences in MSW collection quantities. A two-level hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used to examine the variations in MSW collection quantities among 287 prefecture-level cites in China over the period from 2008 to 2017. The analysis reveals a strong negative correlation between the regional economic development level and the growth trend of MSW collection quantities. The empirical findings indicate that the level of economic development and waste collection measures are critical determinants of MSW collection quantities.
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Somkuwar SS, Quach LW, Quigley JA, Purohit DC, Fannon MJ, Koob GF, Mandyam CD. Ethanol Reinforcement Elicits Novel Response Inhibition Behavior in a Rat Model of Ethanol Dependence. Brain Sci 2018; 8:brainsci8070119. [PMID: 29949891 PMCID: PMC6070985 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci8070119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2018] [Revised: 06/12/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Lower impulse control is a known risk factor for drug abuse vulnerability. Chronic experience with illicit drugs is suggested to enhance impulsivity and thereby perpetuate addiction. However, the nature of this relationship (directionality, causality) with regard to alcohol use disorder is unclear. The present study tested the hypothesis that higher impulsivity is observed during chronic intermittent ethanol vapor inhalation (CIE; a model of ethanol dependence) and subsequent abstinence from CIE in adult Wistar rats. Impulsivity was tested using a differential reinforcement of low rates 15 s (DRL15) schedule using either nondrug reward (palatable modified sucrose pellets) or sweetened ethanol. A decrease in the efficiency of earning reinforcers (expressed as % reinforcers/responses) is indicative of a decrease in response inhibition or an increase in impulsivity. The efficiency of reinforcement and amount of reinforcers earned were unaltered in CIE and control animals when the reinforcer was sucrose. When the reinforcer was sweetened ethanol, the efficiency of reinforcement increased in CIE rats compared with controls only during protracted abstinence. Responding for sweetened ethanol under a progressive-ratio schedule was more rapid in CIE rats during protracted abstinence. Contrary to the initial hypothesis, impulsivity did not increase in rats with a history of CIE; instead, it decreased when ethanol was used as the reinforcer. Furthermore, although the efficiency of ethanol reinforcement did not differ between CIE and control animals during CIE, CIE rats escalated the amount of sweetened ethanol consumed, suggesting that behavioral adaptations that are induced by CIE in rats that are tested under a DRL15 schedule appear to be targeted toward the maximization of ethanol intake and thus may contribute to escalation and relapse.
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- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA.
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- National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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- VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA 92161, USA.
- The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
- Department of Anesthesiology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093, USA.
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Zou X, Durazzo TC, Meyerhoff DJ. Regional Brain Volume Changes in Alcohol-Dependent Individuals During Short-Term and Long-Term Abstinence. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2018; 42:1062-1072. [PMID: 29672876 DOI: 10.1111/acer.13757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2017] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Widespread brain atrophy in alcohol-dependent individuals (ALC) has been consistently documented in pathological and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies. Longitudinal MRI studies have shown that the regional brain volume losses in ALC are partially reversible during abstinence from alcohol. The goal of this study was to determine volume reductions in cortical and subcortical regions functionally important to substance use behavior and their changes during short-term (1 week to 1 month) and long-term abstinence (1 to 7 months) from alcohol. The regions of interest (ROIs) were as follows: anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), insula, amygdala, and hippocampus. METHODS A total of 85 unique ALC were assessed at 1 week (n = 65), 1 month (n = 82), and 7 months (n = 36) of abstinence. In addition, 17 light/nondrinking healthy controls (CON) were assessed at baseline and follow-up over a 10-month interval. Regional brain volumes were derived from FreeSurfer. Cross-sectional statistical analyses using 1-way analysis of variance or Fisher's exact test were applied to identify group differences. Longitudinal statistical analyses using linear mixed models were applied to identify regional volume increases and nonlinear volume recovery trajectories. RESULTS We demonstrated significant regional volume reductions in ACC, DLPFC, and hippocampus. Older age was associated with smaller DLPFC and OFC, and higher average monthly drinking over 1 year prior to study was associated with smaller OFC. We also demonstrated significant volume increases of all ROIs except amygdala in ALC and significant nonlinear volume recovery trajectories of DLPFC, OFC, and insula. CONCLUSIONS Results showed significant volume reductions in key regions of the executive control, salience, and emotion networks in ALC at entry into treatment and significant volume increases during short-term and long-term abstinence that were nonlinear over the entire abstinence period for the DLPFC, OFC, and insula. This gray matter plasticity during alcohol abstinence may have important neurobiological and neurocognitive implications in ALC, and it may contribute to an individual's ability to maintain abstinence from alcohol at different phases.
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- Xiaowei Zou
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California.,Mental Illness Research and Education Clinical Centers and Sierra-Pacific War Related Illness and Injury Study Center, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Livermore, California
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.,Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has been a major cause of family, social, and personal strife for centuries, with current prevalence estimates of 14% for 12-month and 29% lifetime AUD. Neuropsychological testing of selective cognitive, sensory, and motor functions complemented with in vivo brain imaging has enabled tracking the consequences of AUD, which follows a dynamic course of development, maintenance, and recovery or relapse. Controlled studies of alcoholism reviewed herein provide evidence for disruption of selective functions involving executive, visuospatial, mnemonic, emotional, and attentional processes, response inhibition, prosody, and postural stability and brain systems supporting these functions. On a hopeful front, longitudinal study provides convincing evidence for improvement in brain structure and function following sustained sobriety. These discoveries have a strong legacy in the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), starting from its early days when assumptions regarding which brain regions were disrupted relied solely on patterns of functional sparing and impairment deduced from testing. This review is based on the symposium presentation delivered at the 2017 annual North American meeting of the INS in celebration of the 50th anniversary since its institution in 1967. In the spirit of the meeting's theme, "Binding the Past and Present," the lecture and this review recognized the past by focusing on early, rigorous neuropsychological studies of alcoholism and their influence on research currently conducted using imaging methods enabling hypothesis testing of brain substrates of observed functional deficits. (JINS, 2017, 23, 843-859).
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Durazzo TC, Mon A, Gazdzinski S, Yeh PH, Meyerhoff DJ. Serial longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging data indicate non-linear regional gray matter volume recovery in abstinent alcohol-dependent individuals. Addict Biol 2015; 20:956-67. [PMID: 25170881 DOI: 10.1111/adb.12180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The trajectory of regional volume changes during the first year of sustained abstinence in those recovering from an alcohol use disorder is unclear because previous research typically employed only two assessment points. To better understand the trajectory of regional brain volume recovery in treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent individuals (ALC), regional brain volumes were measured after 1 week, 1 month and 7.5 months of sustained abstinence via magnetic resonance imaging at 1.5 T. ALC showed significant volume increases in frontal, parietal and occipital gray matter (GM) and white matter (WM), total cortical GM and total lobar WM, thalamus and cerebellum, and decreased ventricular volume over 7.5 months of abstinence. Volume increases in regional GM were significantly greater over 1 week to 1 month than from 1 month to 7.5 months of abstinence, indicating a non-linear rate of change in regional GM over 7.5 months. Overall, regional lobar WM showed linear volume increases over 7.5 months. With increasing age, smoking ALC showed lower frontal and total cortical GM volume recovery than non-smoking ALC. Despite significant volume increases, ALC showed smaller GM volumes in all regions, except the frontal cortex, than controls after 7.5 months of abstinence. ALC and controls showed no regional WM volume differences at any assessment point. In non-smoking ALC only, increasing regional GM and WM volumes were related to improving processing speed. Findings may indicate a differential rate of recovery of cell types/cellular components contributing to GM and WM volume during early abstinence, and that GM volume deficits persist after 7.5 months of sustained sobriety in this ALC cohort.
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- Timothy C. Durazzo
- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND); San Francisco VA Medical Center; San Francisco CA USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco CA USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND); San Francisco VA Medical Center; San Francisco CA USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco CA USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND); San Francisco VA Medical Center; San Francisco CA USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco CA USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND); San Francisco VA Medical Center; San Francisco CA USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco CA USA
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND); San Francisco VA Medical Center; San Francisco CA USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; University of California San Francisco; San Francisco CA USA
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Le Berre AP, Pitel AL, Chanraud S, Beaunieux H, Eustache F, Martinot JL, Reynaud M, Martelli C, Rohlfing T, Pfefferbaum A, Sullivan EV. Sensitive biomarkers of alcoholism's effect on brain macrostructure: similarities and differences between France and the United States. Front Hum Neurosci 2015; 9:354. [PMID: 26157376 PMCID: PMC4477159 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2015] [Accepted: 06/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Alcohol consumption patterns and recognition of health outcomes related to hazardous drinking vary widely internationally, raising the question whether these national differences are reflected in brain damage observed in alcoholism. This retrospective analysis assessed variability of alcoholism's effects on brain cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and white matter volumes between France and the United States (U.S.). MRI data from two French sites (Caen and Orsay) and a U.S. laboratory (SRI/Stanford University) were acquired on 1.5T imaging systems in 287 controls, 165 uncomplicated alcoholics (ALC), and 26 alcoholics with Korsakoff's Syndrome (KS). All data were analyzed at the U.S. site using atlas-based parcellation. Results revealed graded CSF volume enlargement from ALC to KS and white matter volume deficits in KS only. In ALC from France but not the U.S., CSF and white matter volumes correlated with lifetime alcohol consumption, alcoholism duration, and length of sobriety. MRI highlighted CSF volume enlargement in both ALC and KS, serving as a basis for an ex vacuo process to explain correlated gray matter shrinkage. By contrast, MRI provided a sensitive in vivo biomarker of white matter volume shrinkage in KS only, suggesting a specific process sensitive to mechanisms contributing to Wernicke's encephalopathy, the precursor of KS. Identified structural brain abnormalities may provide biomarkers underlying alcoholism's heterogeneity in and among nations and suggest a substrate of gray matter tissue shrinkage. Proposed are hypotheses for national differences in interpreting whether the severity of sequelae observe a graded phenomenon or a continuum from uncomplicated alcoholism to alcoholism complicated by KS.
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- Anne-Pascale Le Berre
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of MedicineStanford, CA, USA
- INSERM, EPHE, Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, Unité U1077, GIP Cyceron, CHU de CaenCaen, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of MedicineStanford, CA, USA
- INSERM, EPHE, Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, Unité U1077, GIP Cyceron, CHU de CaenCaen, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of MedicineStanford, CA, USA
- EPHEBordeaux, France
- INCIA, UMR-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 5287, Université BordeauxBordeaux, France
- Neuroscience Program, SRI InternationalMenlo Park, CA, USA
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- INSERM, EPHE, Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, Unité U1077, GIP Cyceron, CHU de CaenCaen, France
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- INSERM, EPHE, Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie, Unité U1077, GIP Cyceron, CHU de CaenCaen, France
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- INSERM Research Unit 1000, Université Paris-Sud et Université Paris Descartes, SHFJ, I2BMOrsay, France
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- INSERM, UMR 669Villejuif, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, APHP, Paul Brousse HospitalVillejuif, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Sud 11Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
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- INSERM, UMR 669Villejuif, France
- Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, APHP, Paul Brousse HospitalVillejuif, France
- Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Sud 11Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of MedicineStanford, CA, USA
- Neuroscience Program, SRI InternationalMenlo Park, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of MedicineStanford, CA, USA
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de Zambotti M, Willoughby AR, Baker FC, Sugarbaker DS, Colrain IM. Cardiac autonomic function during sleep: effects of alcohol dependence and evidence of partial recovery with abstinence. Alcohol 2015; 49:409-15. [PMID: 25957854 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2014.07.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2014] [Revised: 07/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/25/2014] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Chronic alcoholism is associated with the development of cardiac and peripheral autonomic nervous system (ANS) pathology. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which recovery in ANS function could be demonstrated over the first 4 months of abstinence. Fifteen alcoholics (7 women) were studied on three occasions: within a month of detoxification, at approximately 2 months post-detox, and at 4 months post-detox. Thirteen control subjects (6 women) were also studied on three occasions with inter-study intervals matching those of the alcoholics. Six alcoholics relapsed, 48.7 ± 27.9 days following the initial PSG session. ANS function was assessed in the first part of stable non-rapid eye movement sleep. Frequency-domain power spectral analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) produced variables including: heart rate (HR), total power (TP; an index representing total HR variability), High Frequency power (HFa; an index reflecting cardiac vagal modulation), HF proportion of total power (HFprop sympathovagal balance), and HF peak frequency (HFpf; an index reflecting respiration rate). Overall, high total and high frequency variability and low sympathovagal balance and myocardial contractility are considered as desired conditions to promote cardiovascular health. At initial assessment, alcoholics had a higher HR (p < 0.001) and respiratory rate (p < 0.01), and lower vagal activity (HFa; p < 0.01) than controls. Alcoholics showed evidence of recovery in HR (p = 0.039) and HFa (p = 0.031) with 4 months of abstinence. Alcoholics with higher TP at the initial visit showed a greater improvement in TP from the initial to the 4 month follow-up session (r = 0.75, p < 0.05). Alcoholics showed substantial recovery in HR and vagal modulation of HRV with 4 months of abstinence, with evidence that the extent of recovery in HRV may be partially determined by the extent of alcohol dependence-related insult to the cardiac ANS system. These data support other studies showing recovery in a number of ANS, central nervous system, and behavioral domains with abstinence, even in those with long-term dependence.
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- Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA; Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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- Center for Health Sciences, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA; Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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Kroemer NB, Guevara A, Ciocanea Teodorescu I, Wuttig F, Kobiella A, Smolka MN. Balancing reward and work: anticipatory brain activation in NAcc and VTA predict effort differentially. Neuroimage 2014; 102 Pt 2:510-9. [PMID: 25108181 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Revised: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 07/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Complex decision-making involves anticipation of future rewards to bias effort for obtaining it. Using fMRI, we investigated 50 participants employing an instrumental-motivation task that cued reinforcement levels before the onset of the motor-response phase. We extracted timecourses from regions of interest (ROI) in the mesocorticolimbic system and used a three-level hierarchical model to separate anticipatory brain responses predicting value and subsequent effort on a trial-by-trial basis. Whereas all ROIs scaled positively with value, higher effort was predicted by higher anticipatory activation in nucleus accumbens (NAcc) but lower activation in ventral tegmental area/substantia nigra (VTA/SN). Moreover, anticipatory activation in the dorsal striatum predicted average effort whereas higher activation in the amygdala predicted above-average effort. Thus, anticipatory activation entails the appetitive drive towards reinforcement that requires effort in order to be obtained. Our results support the role of NAcc as the main hub supported by the salience network operating on a trial-by-trial basis, while the dorsal striatum incorporates habitual responding.
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- Nils B Kroemer
- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany; Escuela de Matemática Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Center, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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Eby LT, Laschober TC, Muilenburg JL. Understanding counselors' implementation of tobacco cessation services with patients. J Subst Abuse Treat 2014; 47:314-20. [PMID: 25082757 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsat.2014.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2014] [Revised: 05/15/2014] [Accepted: 06/18/2014] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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This study aimed to understand substance use disorder counselors' implementation of evidence-based tobacco cessation services (TCS) with their patients who smoke. Drawing from an established adoption of innovations framework, we investigated the association between counselors' perceptions of the availability of TCS (both pharmacotherapies and behavioral treatments) in their treatment program and the implementation of TCS (both pharmacotherapies and behavioral treatments) with their patients who smoke and whether this association is moderated by the strength of an organization's climate for implementation and the fit of the innovation with users' values. Data were collected in 2010 from 682 counselors working in 239 treatment programs across the U.S. that offer evidence-based TCS. Mixed-effect models showed that perceived availability of TCS was related with greater TCS implementation. This relationship was moderated by several indicators of climate for implementation but not by the fit of the innovation with users' values.
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- Lillian T Eby
- University of Georgia, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- University of Georgia, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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- University of Georgia, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, 325 Psychology Building, Athens, GA 30602, USA.
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van Eijk J, Demirakca T, Frischknecht U, Hermann D, Mann K, Ende G. Rapid Partial Regeneration of Brain Volume During the First 14 Days of Abstinence from Alcohol. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2012; 37:67-74. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01853.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2011] [Accepted: 03/28/2012] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Julia van Eijk
- Department of Neuroimaging; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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- Department of Neuroimaging; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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- Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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- Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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- Department of Addictive Behavior and Addiction Medicine; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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- Department of Neuroimaging; Central Institute for Mental Health; Medical Faculty Mannheim; University of Heidelberg; Mannheim; Germany
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Colrain IM, Padilla ML, Baker FC. Partial recovery of alcohol dependence-related deficits in sleep evoked potentials following 12 months of abstinence. Front Neurol 2012; 3:13. [PMID: 22438848 PMCID: PMC3305946 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2011] [Accepted: 01/17/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Stimuli presented during sleep can produce an evoked EEG delta wave referred to as a K-complex. These responses occur when large numbers of cortical cells burst fire in a synchronized manner. Large amplitude synchronized scalp responses require that the CNS contain large numbers of healthy neurons that are interconnected with highly functional white matter pathways. The P2, N550, and P900 components of the evoked K-complex are sensitive measures of normal healthy brain aging, showing a decrease in amplitude with age. N550 and P900 amplitudes are also reduced in recently detoxified alcoholics, most dramatically over frontal scalp regions. The present study tested the hypothesis that the amplitude of K-complex related evoked potential components would increase with prolonged abstinence. Fifteen alcoholics (12 men) were studied twice, separated by a 12 month period, during which time they were followed with monthly phone calls. Subjects were aged between 38 and 60 years at their first study. They had on average a 29.3 ± 6.7 year drinking history and had been abstinent for between 54 and 405 days at initial testing. Evoked K-complexes were identified in the EEG and averaged to enable measurement of the P2, N550 and P900 peaks. Data were collected from seven scalp sites (FP1, FP2, Fz, FCz, Cz, CPz, and Pz). N550 and P900 amplitudes were significantly higher after 12 months of abstinence and an improvement of at least 5 μV occurred in 12 of the 15 subjects. N550 and P900 also showed highly significant site by night interactions with the largest increases occurring over prefrontal and frontal sites. The data indicate that the sleep evoked response may provide a sensitive marker of brain recovery with abstinence from alcohol.
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- Ian M Colrain
- Human Sleep Research Program, Center for Health Sciences, SRI International Menlo Park, CA, USA
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P. Hart R, P. Gibson D, K. Bean M, A. Fisher R. Effects of Illness Severity and Alcohol Use on Cognition in End Stage Liver Disease after Controlling for General Intelligence and Mood——Cognition in End Stage Liver Disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.4236/ijcm.2012.32025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Mon A, Delucchi K, Durazzo TC, Gazdzinski S, Meyerhoff DJ. A mathematical formula for prediction of gray and white matter volume recovery in abstinent alcohol dependent individuals. Psychiatry Res 2011; 194:198-204. [PMID: 21903361 PMCID: PMC3196029 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2010] [Revised: 05/07/2011] [Accepted: 05/15/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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We propose a mathematical formula that predicts the trajectory of the recovery from lobar gray and white matter volume deficits in individuals with sustained abstinence from alcohol. The formula was validated by using MRI-measured volumetric data from 16 alcohol dependent individuals who had brain scans at three time points during abstinence from alcohol. Using the measured volumetric data of each individual from the first two time points, we estimated the individual's gray and white matter volume of the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes for the third time point using the formula. Similarly, using the measured data for the second and third time points, we estimated the first time point data for each individual. The data predicted from the formula were very similar to the experimentally measured data for all lobes and for both gray and white matter. The intra-class correlation coefficients between the measured data and the data estimated from the formula were >0.95 for almost all the tissues. The formula may also be applicable in other neuroimaging studies of tissue volume changes such as white matter myelination during brain development and white matter demyelination or brain volume loss in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
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- Anderson Mon
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Stability of fMRI striatal response to alcohol cues: a hierarchical linear modeling approach. Neuroimage 2011; 56:61-8. [PMID: 21316465 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2010] [Revised: 01/27/2011] [Accepted: 02/01/2011] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of alcohol-dependent individuals, alcohol cues elicit activation of the ventral and dorsal aspects of the striatum (VS and DS), which are believed to underlie aspects of reward learning critical to the initiation and maintenance of alcohol dependence. Cue-elicited striatal activation may represent a biological substrate through which treatment efficacy may be measured. However, to be useful for this purpose, VS or DS activation must first demonstrate stability across time. Using hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), this study tested the stability of cue-elicited activation in anatomically and functionally defined regions of interest in bilateral VS and DS. Nine non-treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent participants twice completed an alcohol cue reactivity task during two fMRI scans separated by 14 days. HLM analyses demonstrated that, across all participants, alcohol cues elicited significant activation in each of the regions of interest. At the group level, these activations attenuated slightly between scans, but session-wise differences were not significant. Within-participants stability was best in the anatomically defined right VS and DS and in a functionally defined region that encompassed right caudate and putamen (intraclass correlation coefficients of .75, .81, and .76, respectively). Thus, within this small sample, alcohol cue-elicited fMRI activation had good reliability in the right striatum, though a larger sample is necessary to ensure generalizability and further evaluate stability. This study also demonstrates the utility of HLM analytic techniques for serial fMRI studies, in which separating within-participants variance (individual changes in activation) from between-participants factors (time or treatment) is critical.
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Durazzo TC, Gazdzinski S, Mon A, Meyerhoff DJ. Cortical perfusion in alcohol-dependent individuals during short-term abstinence: relationships to resumption of hazardous drinking after treatment. Alcohol 2010; 44:201-10. [PMID: 20682188 PMCID: PMC3038637 DOI: 10.1016/j.alcohol.2010.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2009] [Revised: 03/10/2010] [Accepted: 03/11/2010] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Relapse to hazardous levels of alcohol consumption after treatment for alcohol use disorders is common. Investigation of the neurobiological correlates of resumption of hazardous drinking is necessary to clarify the mechanisms contributing to relapse. Fifty-seven treatment-seeking alcohol-dependent participants (ALC) completed arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI of the frontal and parietal gray matter (GM) at 7+/-3 days of abstinence (baseline). ALC participants were restudied after 35+/-11 days of abstinence (assessment point 2: AP2). Twenty-eight nonsmoking, light-drinking control participants (nsLD) from the community were studied with perfusion MRI. ALC participants were followed over 12 months after baseline study and were classified as abstainers (no alcohol consumption; n=19) and resumers (any alcohol consumption; n=38) at follow-up. Cross-sectional and longitudinal perfusion was compared in abstainers, resumers, and nsLD. At baseline, resumers demonstrated significantly lower frontal and parietal GM perfusion than nsLD and abstainers. Abstainers and nsLD were not different on frontal or parietal GM perfusion. No significant longitudinal perfusion changes were observed in abstainers and resumers. At AP2, resumers showed significantly lower frontal GM perfusion than nsLD and abstainers, whereas no group differences were observed for parietal GM. Abstainers and nsLD were not different on frontal GM perfusion. The significantly decreased frontal GM perfusion in resumers compared with both abstainers and nsLD across the assessment interval suggests premorbid and/or acquired neurobiological abnormalities of the frontal GM in resumers.
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- Timothy C Durazzo
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, 94121, USA.
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Liu H, Hao Y, Kaneko Y, Ouyang X, Zhang Y, Xu L, Xue Z, Liu Z. Frontal and cingulate gray matter volume reduction in heroin dependence: optimized voxel-based morphometry. Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2009; 63:563-8. [PMID: 19531112 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2009.01989.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS Repeated exposure to heroin, a typical opiate, causes neuronal adaptation and may result in anatomical changes in specific brain regions, particularly the frontal and limbic cortices. The volume changes of gray matter (GM) of these brain regions, however, have not been identified in heroin addiction. METHODS Using structural magnetic resonance imaging and an optimized voxel-based morphometry approach, the GM volume difference between 15 Chinese heroin-dependent and 15 healthy subjects was tested. RESULTS Compared to healthy subjects, the heroin-dependent subjects had reduced GM volume in the right prefrontal cortex, left supplementary motor cortex and bilateral cingulate cortices. CONCLUSION Frontal and cingulate atrophy may be involved in the neuropathology of heroin dependence.
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- Haihong Liu
- Mental Health Institute, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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Yeh PH, Simpson K, Durazzo TC, Gazdzinski S, Meyerhoff DJ. Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) of diffusion tensor imaging data in alcohol dependence: abnormalities of the motivational neurocircuitry. Psychiatry Res 2009; 173:22-30. [PMID: 19442492 PMCID: PMC2774502 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2007] [Revised: 04/30/2008] [Accepted: 07/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Previous diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies indicated microstructural disruption of white matter in alcohol dependence. To investigate the microstructure of primary neurocircuitry involved in alcohol use disorders, the present study used Tract-Based Spatial Statistics (TBSS) of DTI measures as well as probabilistic tractography. Eleven recovering alcoholics in their first week of abstinence from alcohol were compared with 10 light-drinking controls; diffusion measures were correlated with measures of neurocognition and drinking severity. Regions characterized by low fractional anisotropy and high mean diffusivity included cortico-striatal fibers and those in frontal white matter and limbic pathways. Greater diffusion abnormalities in sections of commissural fibers (inter-hemispheric connections) were associated with greater drinking severity, and lower fractional anisotropy measures in frontal and limbic fiber tracts correlated with lower visuospatial memory performance. These study findings provide direct evidence of compromised integrity of the motivational brain circuitry in alcohol use disorders. These abnormalities in fiber connections could be partially responsible for deficiencies in executive functions, behavioral regulation, and impulse control commonly described in alcohol dependence.
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- Ping-Hong Yeh
- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA.
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street #114M,, San Francisco, CA 94121, U.S.A,Northern California Institute for Research and Education
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street #114M,, San Francisco, CA 94121, U.S.A,Northern California Institute for Research and Education,Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street #114M,, San Francisco, CA 94121, U.S.A,Northern California Institute for Research and Education
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- Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, 4150 Clement Street #114M,, San Francisco, CA 94121, U.S.A,Northern California Institute for Research and Education,Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco
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