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Neural Circuitry Associated with Risk for Alcohol Use Disorders

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The core features of risk for alcohol use disorders (AUD), including behavioral disinhibition, affective dysregulation, and executive dysfunction, map onto distinct neural circuits that have been found to be abnormal in the offspring of alcohol dependent individuals. Components of the cerebellothalamocortical system and the extended limbic network may provide the underpinnings for the behavioral and emotional dysfunction observed in individuals at heightened risk for AUD. In addition, abnormalities in these structures appear to be altered in individuals with the predisposition for other psychiatric conditions that may share a similar genetic diathesis. This review proposes several neurobehavioral mechanisms of genetic vulnerability that may account for phenotypic characteristics in individuals at risk for AUD.

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This research was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Grants AA 005909, AA 008082, AA 015168 to SYH.

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Tessner, K.D., Hill, S.Y. Neural Circuitry Associated with Risk for Alcohol Use Disorders. Neuropsychol Rev 20, 1–20 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-009-9111-4

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