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Representational shifts: increasing motivation for bottled water through simulation-enhancing advertisements
BackgroundDespite its numerous health benefits, consumers’ daily water consumption is below recommend levels while soft drink consumption remains...
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Protective strategies and motivations to control drinking among Brazilian college students: a qualitative study
BackgroundTo develop prevention programs or early interventions to reduce alcohol consumption and related problems among college students, it is...
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The Associations Between Drinking Motives and Alcohol-Related Consequences in Graduate Students from Universities in the United States
Many college students “mature out” of heavy drinking when they graduate. Yet, those who go onto graduate education report engaging in problematic...
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People who binge drink show neuroendocrine tolerance to alcohol cues that is associated with immediate and future drinking- results from a randomized clinical experiment
Neuroendocrine tolerance to alcohol, i.e., a blunted cortisol response to alcohol, has been linked to Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (VmPFC) alcohol...
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A smartphone application to reduce problematic drinking: a feasibility trial
BackgroundProblematic drinking is common among college students and associated with various somatic and mental health problems. Given significant...
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Intolerance of Uncertainty, Drinking Motives, and Alcohol Consumption in a Community Sample of Emerging Adults
StudyIntolerance of uncertainty (IU), a disposition to see uncertainty as negative, is a unique construct associated with a number of internalizing...
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The Impacts of Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide on Binge Drinking Among US Adults
The objective of the study is to evaluate the impacts of the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in the USA on the trend of binge...
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Predictors of treatment outcome for individuals with alcohol use disorder with a goal of controlled drinking
BackgroundResearch is lacking on predictors of outcome for the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD) with a goal of controlled drinking (CD). The...
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Hazardous Drinking Interventions Delivered During Medical-Surgical Care: Patient and Provider Views
AbstractAddressing hazardous drinking during medical-surgical care improves patients’ health. This formative evaluation examined patients’...
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Support after return to alcohol use: a mixed-methods study on how abstinence motivation and app use change after return to alcohol use in an app-based aftercare intervention for individuals with alcohol use disorder
BackgroundAs the return to alcohol use in individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) is common during treatment and recovery, it is important that...
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Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 limits dopamine D1 receptor signaling in striatum and biases against heavy persistent alcohol drinking
The transition from hedonic alcohol drinking to problematic drinking is a hallmark of alcohol use disorder that occurs only in a subset of drinkers....
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Hazardous drinking and alcohol use disorders
Alcohol is one of the most widely consumed psychoactive drugs globally. Hazardous drinking, defined by quantity and frequency of consumption, is...
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Alcohol-related Consequences: Factor Structure and Associations With Trait Mindfulness and Drinking Motivations
BackgroundThis study aimed to determine if motivations to use alcohol (coping and social motivations) mediate the relationship between trait...
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Age Specificity of Effects of Health Problems on Drinking Reduction: A Lifespan Developmental Analysis
Older adult drinking poses a growing public health concern, especially given the ongoing aging of the United States population. As part of a larger...
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The parasubthalamic nucleus refeeding ensemble delays feeding initiation and hastens water drinking
The parasubthalamic nucleus (PSTN) is activated by refeeding after food deprivation and several PSTN subpopulations have been shown to suppress...
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Identifying the motives for and against drinking during pregnancy and motherhood, and factors associated with increased maternal alcohol use
AimMaternal drinking (alcohol use during pregnancy/motherhood) is a hidden public health concern which can have significant negative effects on the...
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Chronic MAP4343 reverses escalated alcohol drinking in a mouse model of alcohol use disorder
Alcohol use disorders can be driven by negative reinforcement. Alterations of the microtubule cytoskeleton have been associated with mood regulation...
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Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART) mediates sex differences in binge drinking through central taste circuits
The neuropeptide cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) has been implicated in alcohol consumption and reward behaviours, yet...
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The lateral habenula is not required for ethanol dependence-induced escalation of drinking
The lateral habenula (LHb) is an epithalamic nuclei that has been shown to signal the aversive properties of ethanol. The present study tested the...
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A prevention program for binge drinking among students based on mindfulness and implementation intention (ALCOMEDIIT): a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundThe emergence of new problematic alcohol consumption practices among young people requires new dynamics in prevention strategies. In this...
