Neurobiology of Alcohol Dependence

Section I: Neurocircuitry of Alcohol Dependence
1. Frameworks of alcohol addiction: Alcohol addiction as a reward deficit and stress surfeit disorder
2. Basal ganglia networks and mechanisms of voluntary actions:  implications for alcohol addiction and dependence
3. Prefrontal limbic striatal circuits and alcohol addiction in humans
4. Molecular adaptations in mesolimbic circuitry and pathological ethanol intake
5. The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis: A critical site of ethanol-induced alterations in neurotransmission
6. Stress and alcohol drinking behavior
7. Alcohol and developing neuronal circuits
8. Human imaging studies of brain circuitry disrupted by alcoholism

Section II: Neurosignaling and Neuroplasticity of Alcohol Dependence
9. From signaling pathways to behavior: The light and dark sides of alcohol
10. Glutamate signaling in alcohol abuse and dependence
11. Central amygdala neuroplasticity in alcohol dependence
12. Neural plasticity in the ventral tegmental area and alcohol dependence
13. Extrasynaptic GABA receptors and alcohol 
14. Cannabinoids and the neural actions of alcohol
15. Impact of alcohol abuse and dependence on the structure and function of the prefrontal cortex
16. Molecular mechanisms underlying the development of functional and behavioral tolerance to alcohol

Section III: Gene and Behavior
17. Alcohol and the brain: An epigenetic viewpoint
18. The genetic complexity of alcohol drinking in rodents
19. Alcohol dependence, withdrawal, and relapse
20. Insights from non human primates on risks for drinking to dependence
21. The potential role of glucocorticoids and the HPA axis in alcohol dependence
22. Anxiety and alcohol use disorders: A perspective from molecular and epigenetic studies
23. The genetics of alcohol responses of invertebrate model systems
24. MicroRNAs in alcohol abuse and toxicity
25. Gene and behavior
26. Complex genetics of alcoholism