Neuroscience: Pathways to Alcohol Dependence Part 1 — Overview of the Neurobiology of Dependence Volume 31, Number 3, 2008   This Table of Contents is provided for navigation throughout the Journal. If you wish to view or print the journal in PDF format, click on the PDF link (you must have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader—see PDF Viewing Information).
		183	In This Issue [PDF]
		185	Neurobiology of Alcohol Dependence: Focus on Motivational Mechanisms [PDF] Nicolas W. Gilpin and George F. Koob
		196	Communication Networks in the Brain: Neurons, Receptors, Neurotransmitters, and Alcohol [PDF] David M. Lovinger
		215	Translational Studies of Alcoholism: Bridging the Gap [PDF] Natalie M. Zahr and Edith V. Sullivan

231 Strategies to Study the Neuroscience of Alcoholism: Introduction [PDF] Robert Hitzemann and Denesa Oberbeck 233 Positron Emission Tomography As a Tool for Studying Alcohol Abuse [PDF] Panayotis K. Thanos, Gene-Jack Wang, and Nora D. Volkow 238 From Event-Related Potential to Oscillations: Genetic Diathesis in Brain (Dys)Function and Alcohol Dependence [PDF] Madhavi Rangaswamy and Bernice Porjesz 243 The Use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Alcohol Research [PDF] Bonnie J. Nagel and Christopher D. Kroenke 247 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Approaches for Studying Alcoholism Using Mouse Models [PDF] Eilis A. Boudreau, Gang Chen, Xin Li, and Christopher D. Kroenke 249 Laser-Assisted Microdissection [PDF] Denesa Oberbeck 251 Proteomic Solutions for Analytical Challenges Associated With Alcohol Research [PDF] Michael J. MacCoss and Christine C. Wu 256 On the Use of Short-Interfering RNA to Study Alcohol-Related Genes [PDF] Christopher A. Adams and W. Michael Zawada

259 Viral Delivery of Small-Hairpin RNAs for Reducing Gene Expression in the Rodent Brain [PDF] Amy W. Lasek and Ulrike Heberlein 261 Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis: Multiple Cross and Heterogeneous Stock Mapping [PDF] Robert Hitzemann, John K. Belknap, and Shannon K. McWeeney 266 Interval-Specific Congenic Animals for High- Resolution Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping [PDF] Deaunne L. Denmark, Lauren C. Milner, and Kari J. Buck 270 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Masking [PDF] Nicole A.R. Walter, Shannon K. McWeeney, Sandra T. Peters, John K. Belknap, Robert Hitzemann, and Kari J. Buck 272 Expression Quantitative Trait Loci and the PhenoGen Database [PDF] Laura Saba, Paula L. Hoffman, Cheryl Hornbaker, Sanjiv V. Bhave, and Boris Tabakoff 275 Integrative Genetic Analysis of Alcohol Dependence Using the GeneNetwork Web Resources [PDF] Robert W. Williams and Lu Lu 278 Conclusions [PDF] Robert Hitzemann and Denesa Oberbeck 279 Glossary [PDF]

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