Annual Report of Intramural Research Program Activities. Fiscal Year 1995

摘要

;Partial Contents: Protracted withdrawal from alcohol; Cognitive function in malealcoholics; Determinants of cognitive dysfunctions in neuropsychiatric disorders; Cerebral metabolic correlates of aggressive and addictive behavior; Electrophysiological studies of acute and chronic alcohol consumption; Eye movement in alcoholism and individuals at risk for alcoholism; Semi-automated methods of segmentation of brain images; Hepatitis C virus infection in alcoholics; Psychological and biological characterization of smoking withdrawal in alcoholics; Psychobiology of alcoholism in women; CNS serotonin activity, anesthesia, and PET scans in rhesus macaques; Violent behavior, neurotransmitters, glucose metabolism and alcohol abuse; Turnover of CYP2E1 during control conditions, chronic ethanol exposure/withdrawal; Mechanisms of altered drug metabolism following withdrawal from ethanol; Nutritional effects on essential fatty acid composition; Determination of neurosteroids in human cerebrospinal fluid; Synaptic mechanisms and alcohol actions; Study on human mitochondrial aldehydrogenase genes in transgenic and knock-out mice; Studies on DNA single-strand conformation prediction; Molecular markers of brain regional differences in thiamine deficiency; Genetic studies of the electroencephalogram and event-related potentials.