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Pharmacogenetic Approaches to the Neuropharmacology of Ethanol

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Genetics Behavioral Treatment Social Mediators and Prevention Current Concepts in Diagnosis

Part of the book series: Recent Developments in Alcoholism ((RDIA,volume 1))

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The literature cited in this review clearly demonstrates that many of the behavioral and pharmacological responses to either acute or chronic actions of alcohol are indeed heritable. This conclusion is supported by data derived from several different animal models that have been genetically manipulated to display a wide variety of alcohol-related responses. It is doubtful if any one specific animal model will be developed that will serve as a prototype for human alcoholism. When one considers the amount of knowledge resulting from the pharmacogenetic studies reviewed here, it is more likely that major advances in our understanding of alcohol’s complex actions will be derived from several different animal models.

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  1. School of Pharmacy, Institute for Behavioral Genetics, USA

    Dennis R. Petersen

  2. Alcohol Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA

    Dennis R. Petersen

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  1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

    Marc Galanter M.D.

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 66103, USA

    Donald W. Goodwin

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, 19107, Pennsylvania, USA

    Edward Gottheil

  4. Department of Psychiatry, The Neuropsychiatric Institute, Alcohol Research Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024, USA

    Alfonso Paredes

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Petersen, D.R. (1983). Pharmacogenetic Approaches to the Neuropharmacology of Ethanol. In: Galanter, M., et al. Genetics Behavioral Treatment Social Mediators and Prevention Current Concepts in Diagnosis. Recent Developments in Alcoholism, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3617-4_4

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