A critical review of front‐loading: A maladaptive drinking pattern driven by alcohol's rewarding effects

CE Ardinger, CC Lapish… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Front‐loading is a drinking pattern in which alcohol intake is skewed toward the onset of
reward access. This phenomenon has been reported across several different alcohol self …

Advancing the preclinical study of comorbid neuroHIV and substance use disorders: Current perspectives and future directions

MD Namba, Q Xie, JM Barker - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2023 - Elsevier
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a persistent public health concern throughout
the world. Substance use disorders (SUDs) are a common comorbidity that can worsen …

The Alcohol Relief Questionnaire: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale to measure the psychological, interpersonal, sleep, and physical relief …

A Lac, JW Luk - Psychological Assessment, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Several major alcohol theoretical frameworks postulate that people consume alcohol to
attain relief from negative states. These relief experiences are consistent with the …

Examining a brief measure and observed cutoff scores to identify reward and relief drinking profiles: Psychometric properties and pharmacotherapy response

VR Votaw, K Mann, HR Kranzler, CR Roos… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Precision medicine approaches attempt to reduce variability in alcohol use
disorder (AUD) outcomes by identifying patient characteristics that predict response to a …

[HTML][HTML] Animal models of compulsion alcohol drinking: Why we love quinine-resistant intake and what we learned from it

T De Oliveira Sergio, RM Frasier, FW Hopf - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) ranks among the most prevalent mental disorders, extracting~
$250 billion/year in the US alone and producing myriad medical and social harms. Also, the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Using lickometry to infer differential contributions of salience network regions during compulsion-like alcohol drinking

PA Starski, TDO Sergio, FW Hopf - Addiction Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
Alcohol use disorder extracts substantial personal, social and clinical costs, and continued
intake despite negative consequences (compulsion-like consumption) can contribute …

Clinical and neural correlates of reward and relief drinking

EM Burnette, EN Grodin, JP Schacht… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is heterogenous. One approach to parsing this
heterogeneity is to phenotype individuals by their underlying motivation to drink, specifically …

Mechanisms of alcohol addiction: bridging human and animal studies

J Kramer, DM Dick, A King, LA Ray… - Alcohol and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aim The purpose of this brief narrative review is to address the complexities and benefits of
extending animal alcohol addiction research to the human domain, emphasizing Allostasis …

Examining the validity of the drinking motives questionnaire for identifying reward and relief drinking subgroups in college students

HM Hebden, VR Votaw… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Heavy alcohol use in college is associated with a risk of developing alcohol use
disorder. Characterizing variability in individual risk factors for alcohol use could help …