Advances in the science and treatment of alcohol use disorder

K Witkiewitz, RZ Litten, L Leggio - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Alcohol is a major contributor to global disease and a leading cause of preventable death,
causing approximately 88,000 deaths annually in the United States alone. Alcohol use …

Translational opportunities in animal and human models to study alcohol use disorder

SJ Nieto, EN Grodin, CG Aguirre, A Izquierdo… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Animal and human laboratory paradigms offer invaluable approaches to study the complex
etiologies and mechanisms of alcohol use disorder (AUD). We contend that human …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming the valley of death: a new model for high technology startups

SA Gbadegeshin, A Al Natsheh, K Ghafel… - Sustainable Futures, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Valley of Death (VoD) reflects a series of challenges facing technology-based
companies during their early development stages. Extant literature highlights the need for …

Testing pharmacotherapies for alcohol use disorder with cue exposure paradigms: A systematic review and quantitative synthesis of human laboratory trial …

LR Meredith, EM Burnette, SJ Nieto… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol cue exposure is a widely used experimental paradigm for screening
pharmacotherapies for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Medication‐related reductions in cue …

Alcohol and pain: a translational review of preclinical and clinical findings to inform future treatment strategies

S Edwards, LF Vendruscolo, NW Gilpin… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) and chronic pain are enduring and devastating conditions that
share an intersecting epidemiology and neurobiology. Chronic alcohol use itself can …

Alcohol-induced neuroinflammatory response and mitochondrial dysfunction on aging and Alzheimer's disease

BE León, S Kang, G Franca-Solomon… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Mitochondria are essential organelles central to various cellular functions such as energy
production, metabolic pathways, signaling transduction, lipid biogenesis, and apoptosis. In …

[HTML][HTML] Availability of medications for the treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorder in the USA

AJ Abraham, CM Andrews, SJ Harris, PD Friedmann - Neurotherapeutics, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite high mortality rates due to opioid overdose and excessive alcohol consumption,
medications for the treatment of alcohol and opioid use disorder have not been widely used …

Applying the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment to derive neurofunctional domains in individuals who use methamphetamine

SJ Nieto, LA Ray - Behavioural brain research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) was proposed as a neuroscience-
informed clinical framework to understand heterogeneity in addiction encompassing …

A practice quit model to test early efficacy of medications for alcohol use disorder in a randomized clinical trial

LA Ray, WA Baskerville, SJ Nieto, E Grodin… - …, 2024 - Springer
Rationale Screening novel medications for alcohol use disorder (AUD) requires models that
are both efficient and ecologically-valid. Ideally, such models would be associated with the …

The future of translational research on alcohol use disorder

LA Ray, EN Grodin, L Leggio, AJ Bechtholt… - Addiction …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In March 2019, a scientific meeting was held at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA) Luskin Center to discuss approaches to expedite the translation of neurobiological …