Understanding and Treating Alcohol Craving and Dependence: Recent Pharmacological and Neuroendocrinological Findings

Is Cortisol Involved in the Alcohol-Related Fat Mass Impairment? A Longitudinal Clinical Study

(2009) L. Leggio et al.   ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM

Systemic administration of ghrelin induces conditioned place preference and stimulates accumbal dopamine

(2008) Elisabet Jerlhag   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Renin and aldosterone but not the natriuretic peptide correlate with obsessive craving in medium-term abstinent alcohol-dependent patients: a longitudinal study

(2008) Lorenzo Leggio et al.   ALCOHOL

Invited Commentary * Serotonin transporter (SERT) brain density and neurobiological cloninger subtypes model: a lesson by human autoradiography studies

(2008) L. Leggio et al.   ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM

Neurobiology and treatment in alcoholism--recent findings regarding lesch's typology of alcohol dependence

(2008) T. Hillemacher et al.   ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM

Relationship Between the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Thyroid Axis and Alcohol Craving in Alcohol-Dependent Patients: A Longitudinal Study

(2008) Lorenzo Leggio et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Association of Pro-Ghrelin and GHS-R1A Gene Polymorphisms and Haplotypes With Heavy Alcohol Use and Body Mass

(2008) Sara Landgren et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Insulin But Not Insulin Growth Factor-1 Correlates With Craving in Currently Drinking Alcohol-Dependent Patients

(2008) Lorenzo Leggio et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Acute Interaction of Baclofen in Combination With Alcohol in Heavy Social Drinkers

(2008) Suzette M. Evans et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

A Within-Group Design of Nontreatment Seeking 5-HTTLPR Genotyped Alcohol-Dependent Subjects Receiving Ondansetron and Sertraline

(2008) George A. Kenna et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

Increased levels of adiponectin and resistin in alcohol dependence—possible link to craving

(2008) Thomas Hillemacher et al.   DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

Alcohol dependence is associated with reduced plasma and fundic ghrelin levels

(2008) A. Badaoui et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Alpha-conotoxin MII-sensitive nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are involved in mediating the ghrelin-induced locomotor stimulation and dopamine overflow in nucleus accumbens

(2008) Elisabet Jerlhag et al.   EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Baclofen improves abstinence in alcoholic cirrhosis: Still better to come?

(2008) Pascal Gache et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

“Do you want a vodka? No, a green tea please!” Epigallocatechin gallate and its possible role in oxidative stress and liver damage

(2008) Lorenzo Leggio et al.   NUTRITION

Effects of naltrexone on cortisol levels in heavy drinkers

(2008) Lara A. Ray et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology

(2008) N. D Volkow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Epigenetic regulation and gene expression of vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide in alcohol withdrawal

(2008) Thomas Hillemacher et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Interplay between oxidative stress and immunity in the progression of alcohol-mediated liver injury

(2008) Matteo Vidali et al.   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

HPA-axis activity in alcoholism: examples for a gene–environment interaction

(2007) Toni-Kim Clarke et al.   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

New developments for the pharmacological treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. A focus on non-benzodiazepine GABAergic medications

(2007) Lorenzo Leggio et al.   PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY