NCT01031264

Chronic Alcohol and Brain Stress Circuit Response

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Alcoholism is among the top three causes of preventable death and disease in the US (Mokdad et al., 2004; Room et al., 2005). Stress plays an important role in the development of alcoholism and in high vulnerability to alcohol relapse. This study will provide a greater understanding of the mechanism by which stress and alcohol consumption interacts to influence development of compulsive alcohol seeking and vulnerability to stress-induced drinking, and the results will have significant implications for the development of new prevention and treatment interventions for alcoholism.

Conditions

• Stress
• Alcoholism

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2009-12-14
• Last updated: 2015-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States