Addictive Substances and Neurological Disease: Alcohol, Tobacco, Caffeine, and Drugs of Abuse in Everyday Lifestyles is a complete guide to the manifold effects of addictive substances on the brain, providing readers with the latest developing research on how these substances are implicated in neurological development and dysfunction.

Part I. Alcohol and Neurological Dysfunction 1. Acute Ethanol-Induced Changes in Microstructural and Metabolite Concentrations on the Brain: Noninvasive Functional Brain Imaging 2. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Neuroglial Changes in Neurochemistry and Behavior in Animal Models 3. Alcohol on Histaminergic Neurons of Brain 4. Antenatal Alcohol and Histological Brain Disturbances 5. Alcohol Intoxication and Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Basic and Clinical Science 6. Visual and Auditory Changes After Acute Alcohol Ingestion 7. Zebrafish Models of Alcohol Addiction 8. Effect of Alcohol on the Regulation of a-Synuclein in the Human Brain 9. Consumption of Ethanol and Tissue Changes in the Central Nervous System 10. Ethanol Consumption and Cerebellar Disorders 11. Gene Expression in CNS Regions of Genetic Rat Models of Alcohol Abuse 12. Role of TLR4 in the Ethanol-Induced Modulation of the Autophagy Pathway in the Brain 13. Ghrelinergic Signaling in Ethanol Reward 14. Alcoholic Neurological Syndromes 15. Frontal Lobe Dysfunction After Developmental Alcohol Exposure: Implications From Animal Models 16. Ethanol's Action Mechanisms in the Brain: From Lipid General Alterations to Specific Protein Receptor Binding 17. Antioxidant Vitamins and Brain Dysfunction in Alcoholics 18. Serotonin Deficiency and Alcohol Use Disorders