Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.160, ranking it 22nd out of 41 journals in the category "Social Issues," 25th out of 40 journals in the category, "Biomedical Social Sciences," and 69th out of 129 journals for the category, "Multidisciplinary Psychology." [3] Death Studies is indexed in: CINAHL
The purpose of the study was to examine whether, like in other studies already conducted on male depression and alcohol consumption, depressed women also consumed less alcohol when taking anti-depressants. According to the study, both men and women experiencing depression (but not on antidepressants) drank more than non-depressed counterparts.
Alcohol hallucinosis: patients have transient visual, auditory, or tactile hallucinations, but are otherwise clear. [12] Withdrawal seizures: seizures occur within 48 hours of alcohol cessation and occur either as a single generalized tonic-clonic seizure or as a brief episode of multiple seizures. [14]
Patients with alcoholic dementia often develop apathy, related to frontal lobe damage, that may mimic depression. [3] People with an alcohol use disorder are more likely to become depressed than people without alcohol use disorder, [4] and it may be difficult to differentiate between depression and alcohol dementia.
The NIAAA functions both as a funding agency that supports research by external research institutions and as a research institution itself, where alcohol research is carried out in‐house. [1] It funds approximately 90% of all such research in the United States. [2] The NIAAA publishes the academic journal Alcohol Research: Current Reviews.
Symptoms of varying BAC levels. Additional symptoms may occur. The short-term effects of alcohol consumption range from a decrease in anxiety and motor skills and euphoria at lower doses to intoxication (drunkenness), to stupor, unconsciousness, anterograde amnesia (memory "blackouts"), and central nervous system depression at higher doses.
The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...
The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (JSAD) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original research articles on various aspects of the use and misuse of alcohol and other drugs. Topics covered include the biological, medical, epidemiological, social, psychological, and legal aspects of alcohol and other drug use, abuse ...