New therapeutics for the prevention or amelioration of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders: a narrative review of the preclinical literature

M Olivares-Costa, MC Fabio… - The American Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Ethanol consumption during pregnancy induces enduring detrimental effects in
the offspring, manifesting as a spectrum of symptoms collectively termed as Fetal Alcohol …

A review on the reciprocal interactions between neuroinflammatory processes and substance use and misuse, with a focus on alcohol misuse

A Gano, T Deak, RM Pautassi - The American journal of drug and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The last decade has witnessed a surge of findings implicating
neuroinflammatory processes as pivotal players in substance use disorders. The …

Negative marijuana‐related consequences among college students in five countries: Measurement invariance of the Brief Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire

AJ Bravo, MR Pearson, A Pilatti, L Mezquita… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims The 21‐item Brief Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire (B‐
MACQ) has been shown to be a valid measure to assess negative marijuana‐related …

Cross-cultural examination of negative alcohol-related consequences: Measurement invariance of the Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire in Spain …

AJ Bravo, A Pilatti, MR Pearson, JP Read… - Psychological …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study examined measurement invariance of the 48-item, 8-factor, Young Adult
Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire (YAACQ) across nationality in college students from …

[PDF][PDF] The Role of age of onset in problematic alcohol consumption: artefact or cohort effect

MPO Aguilar, PR Palomera, CL Núñez, CT Maroño… - Clínica y …, 2022 - SciELO Espana
Age of onset has been reported as a crucial predictor for alcohol consumption in
adolescence. However, several authors have warned against it as an unreliable artefact …

Prenatal ethanol induces an anxiety phenotype and alters expression of dynorphin & nociceptin/orphanin FQ genes

A Wille-Bille, RS Miranda-Morales, M Pucci… - Progress in Neuro …, 2018 - Elsevier
Animal models have suggested that prenatal ethanol exposure (PEE) alters the κ opioid
receptor system. The present study investigated the brain expression of dynorphin and …

Change in psychoactive substance consumption in relation to psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay

P Ruiz, F Semblat, RM Pautassi - Sultan Qaboos University …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objectives This study aimed to analyse how the health crisis associated with the COVID-19
pandemic affected psychoactive substance consumption in Uruguay. Methods An online …

Consequences of alcohol use, and its association with psychological distress, sensitivity to emotional contagion and age of onset of alcohol use, in Uruguayan youth …

P Ruiz, A Pilatti, RM Pautassi - Alcohol, 2020 - Elsevier
Psychological distress can promote alcohol consumption during emerging adulthood. Still
unknown is, however, how predisposition to emotional contagion alters psychological …

Alterations of brain activity in patients with alcohol use disorder: a resting-state fMRI study

X Ruan, Z Song, J Zhang, T Yu, J Chen, T Zhou - BMC psychiatry, 2023 - Springer
Background Alcohol use disorder (AUD) has a negative impact on one's health and wastes
a lot of societal resources since it damages one's brain tissue. Yet the knowledge of the …

Why do university students from Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina play drinking games? A mixed-method cross-country study

BL Zamboanga, K Ford, AM George… - Emerging …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Qualitative work suggests that young people's motives for playing drinking games (DGs)
extend beyond those assessed in the Motives for Playing Drinking Games (MPDG) measure …