22. Alcohol
Tina Hinton and Graham Johnston
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 6208; Fax: +61 2 9351 3868; Email: tina.hinton@sydney.edu.au
Key words: alcohol, ethanol, glutamate, GABA, mechanism of action, GABAA receptors, NMDA receptors, metabolism, adaptive changes, tolerance, dependence, alcohol withdrawal syndrome
Contents
22.1 The Control of Excitation and Inhibition
22.2 Alcohol and its Behavioural Effects
22.3 Mechanism of Alcohol Action
22.4 General Considerations with the use of Alcohol
22.5 Long Term Adaptive Changes with the use of Alcohol