Alcohol Use Disorders: A Developmental Science Approach to Etiology
Hiram E. Fitzgerald and Leon I. Puttler
Abstract
Chapters in this volume reflect, to one degree or another, eight critical aspects of contemporary research attempting to understand the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for substance use disorders: (1) a focus on systemic frameworks for understanding developmental process, (2) the heterogeneity of developmental pathways, (3) the role of genes and epigenetic–experience transactions, (4) risk cumulative/cascade models of the effects of exposure to adverse childhood experiences, (5) negotiating developmental transitional periods, (6) neurobiological embodiment of adver ... More
Chapters in this volume reflect, to one degree or another, eight critical aspects of contemporary research attempting to understand the etiologic processes that heighten risk or resilience factors for substance use disorders: (1) a focus on systemic frameworks for understanding developmental process, (2) the heterogeneity of developmental pathways, (3) the role of genes and epigenetic–experience transactions, (4) risk cumulative/cascade models of the effects of exposure to adverse childhood experiences, (5) negotiating developmental transitional periods, (6) neurobiological embodiment of adverse childhood experiences, (7) links between alcohol use disorder and tobacco addictive behaviors, and (8) longitudinal studies and data analysis within and between studies.
Keywords:
alcoholism,
etiology,
systems theory,
epigenetics,
multiple pathways,
embodied experience
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780190676001 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190676001.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, editor
University Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University
Leon I. Puttler, editor
Project Director, Michigan Longitudinal Study, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
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