Alcoholic insanity is an outdated term to describe alcohol-induced psychosis. This is a rare condition in which alcohol use disorder, acute alcohol intoxication, and alcohol withdrawal can cause ...

Researchers have identified anxiety and depression symptom trajectories that may help explain the high relapse rates for people who quit drinking. A study published in Alcohol: Clinical and ...

The study not only highlights the resilience of the brain, but may also point to solutions for addressing symptoms of ...

Substance use disorder makes it hard to stop using substances even when they're harmful. Using the term "substance use disorder" helps separate the person from the treatable illness. Substance use ...

A quantitative alcohol history should be recorded for all patients, because alcohol use contributes to many physical and mental disorders. A person-centered, nonjudgmental approach should be adopted.

A person's drinking patterns at age 18 predict the trajectory of their drinking behavior into adulthood, and that trajectory may predict the likelihood of having symptoms of alcohol dependence at age ...

Bipolar disorder and alcohol problems seem to go hand-in-hand, leading to a widespread belief that drinking acts as a kind of 'self medication' to ease bipolar's life-altering symptoms of mania, ...

Alcohol affects men and women very differently, especially women dependent on alcohol. For five years, the Yale Program on Sex Differences in Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), headed by Dr. Sherry McKee, ...

When we drink alcohol, our liver breaks it down into acetate, which the body can then burn as fuel. A new Neuropsychopharmacology study has discovered that chronic alcohol use can alter how the brain ...