Search for dissertations about: "christopher pickering"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words christopher pickering.

2. 1. Factors affecting alcohol self-administration : learning, environmental and genetic influences on behaviour

   Author : Christopher Pickering; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : ethanol; operant self-administration; addiction; reward; learning; lever press response; context; environmental cue; novelty; stress; glutamate; GABA; noradrenaline; PCR; gene expression; functional genomics; prefrontal cortex; hippocampus; amygdala;

   Abstract : Alcoholism is a serious problem for society and is a very difficult disease to treat clinically. Often, the addict has periods of abstinence from alcohol followed by relapse to drinking and this cycle of use/non-use can repeat over many years. READ MORE