Search for dissertations about: "Alcoholism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the word Alcoholism.

  2. 16. Post mortem studies on the human alcoholic brain : DNA methylation and molecular responses

    Author : Sofia Johansson; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Chronic alcoholism is a multi-factorial psychiatric disease manifested by re-occurring periods of relapse with frequent symptoms of cognitive impairments. There is no explanation to the extreme vulnerability to relapse, since this often occurs without evident molecular or biochemical changes remaining at the time of relapse. READ MORE

  4. 17. The midwife´s dialogue about alcohol in a lifecycle perspective with both parents-to-be

    Author : Hjördis Högberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; alcohol consumption; AUDIT-C; drinking context; health promotion; intervention; life cycle perspective; partners; pregnancy; social support;

    Abstract : Alcohol use during pregnancy can damage the fetus. Midwives at antenatal care (ANC) screen pregnant women for risk drinking in early pregnancy. There are however, no routines involving both parents-to-be in a dialogue about alcohol. READ MORE

  5. 18. Streptococcus pneumoniae : epidemiological, clinical and serological studies

    Author : Lars Å. Burman; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Streptococcus pneumoniae; incidence; predisposing factors; prognosis; serotyping; etiology of pneumonia; diagnostic methods; COA; CIE; pneumococcal serology;

    Abstract : A retrospective study of invasive pneumococcal disease in patients from Greater Göteborg in 1964- 1980 identified 125 cases of meningitis, 305 of pneumonia, 61 of septicemia with unknown focus, and 17 with other manifestations, all verified by cultures from normally sterile body fluids. The incidence was several times higher in infants and in the elderly than in any other age-group. READ MORE

  6. 19. Epigenetic Dysregulations in the Brain of Human Alcoholics : Analysis of Opioid Genes

    Author : Igor Bazov; Georgy Bakalkin; Catharina Lavebratt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; neuropeptides; dynorphin; human brain; alcohol dependence; epigenetics; gene transcription;

    Abstract : Neuropeptides are special in their expression profiles restricted to neuronal subpopulations and low tissue mRNA levels. Genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional mechanisms that define spatiotemporal expression of the neuropeptide genes have utmost importance for the formation and functions of neural circuits in normal and pathological human brain. READ MORE

  7. 20. Risky Health Behaviour among Adolescents

    Author : Petter Lundborg; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social economics; Social ekonomi; risky health behaviour; peer effects; substance use; illicit-drug use; smoking; alcohol; Econometric analysis; risk perception;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four essays on risky health behaviour among adolescents. In the first paper, Young people and alcohol: an econometric analysis, the purpose was to analyse the determinants of adolescent drinking behaviour within an economic-theoretical framework. READ MORE