Genetics of addictions.
نویسندگان
چکیده
Addictions include a group of common, heritable psychiatric illnesses that have multiple psychiatric and medical comorbidities. Robust genetic associations have been found for alcohol dependence, nicotine dependence, and cocaine dependence. Common genetic associations have been found between alcohol dependence and aerodigestive cancers and between nicotine dependence and lung disease. These associations highlight the importance of understanding the genetics of substance dependence in the context of its multiple medical and psychiatric comorbidities.
منابع مشابه
A review of pathological explanation on behavioral addictions and its comparison with drug addictions
In the past, addiction was known only by drug addictions, Currently, its definition has become much broader. Gambling, compulsive buying, video game addiction, problematic internet use, and even extreme work or sports can be classified as addictions. The existing criteria for experts in diagnosing different types of behavioral addictions are highly controversial, and this has made it difficult ...
متن کاملPharmacogenetics and human molecular genetics of opiate and cocaine addictions and their treatments.
Opiate and cocaine addictions are major social and medical problems that impose a significant burden on society. Despite the size and scope of these problems, there are few effective treatments for these addictions. Methadone maintenance is an effective and most widely used treatment for opiate addiction, allowing normalization of many physiological abnormalities caused by chronic use of short-...
متن کاملA targeted review of the neurobiology and genetics of behavioural addictions: an emerging area of research.
This review summarizes neurobiological and genetic findings in behavioural addictions, draws parallels with findings pertaining to substance use disorders, and offers suggestions for future research. Articles concerning brain function, neurotransmitter activity, and family history and (or) genetic findings for behavioural addictions involving gambling, Internet use, video game playing, shopping...
متن کاملBehavioral Addiction Under The Rubric Of Addiction Spectrum Disorders Ranging From Impulsive - Compulsive Disorders To Reward Deficiency Syndrome
The term addiction comes from the Latin word “addicere”, which translates as “bound to”, or “enslaved by”. Behavioral addictions also known as “process addictions” or “impulsive-compulsive behaviors” encompass a diverse group of behaviors right from compulsive shopping, gambling, internet use and gaming to pornography, sex, exercising and food addiction. Humans have been known to have non-subst...
متن کاملEpidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)2, the one-year POINT PREVALENCE of DSM-IV (the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
| The addictions are common chronic psychiatric diseases that today are prevented and treated using relatively untargeted and only partially effective methods. The addictions are moderately to highly heritable, which is paradoxical because these disorders require use; a choice that is itself modulated by both genes and environment. The addictions are interrelated and related to other psychiatri...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Psychiatric clinics of North America
دوره 33 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010