Genes and the Motivation to Use Substances (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation #61)

Genes and the Motivation to Use Substances (Nebraska Symposium on Motivation #61)

Scott F. Stoltenberg (Editor)
$131.99
Publication Date: June 13th, 2014
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9781493906529
Pages:
144
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Description

1 Do Genes Motivate Substance Use?

Scott F. Stoltenberg

2 Rodent Models of Genetic Contributions to Motivation to Abuse Alcohol

John C. Crabbe

3 The adolescent origins of substance use disorders: A behavioral genetic perspective

Matt McGue, Daniel E. Irons and William G. Iacono

4 Genes, Brain, Behavior and Context: The developmental matrix of addictive behavior

Robert A. Zucker

5 Have the genetics of cannabis involvement gone to pot?

Arpana Agrawal and Michael T. Lynskey

6 The DNA Methylation Signature of Smoking: An Archetype for the Identification of Biomarkers for Behavioral Illness

Robert A. Philibert, S.R.H. Beach and Gene H. Brody

7 Genomics of impulsivity: Integrating genes and neuroscience

David Goldman

About the Author

Dr. Stoltenberg holds a PhD in psychology with a focus on behavior genetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He proceeded to do a NIAAA funded postdoctoral fellowship in human alcoholism genetics at the Addiction Research Center at the University of Michigan. He then joined the University of Michigan research faculty in the Psychiatry Department, where he continued to conduct research into the genetics of alcoholism. In 2004, he took a more teaching-oriented position at Black Hills State University before coming to University of Nebraska in 2009.

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