Main description:

Neurobiology of Addiction and Comorbid Disorders, Volume 156, in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights new advances in the field of neurobiology, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Pain + Alcohol, Pain + Opioids, Traumatic Stress + Alcohol, Traumatic Stress + Cannabinoids, Traumatic Brain Injury and the Misuse of Alcohol, Opioids, and Cannabis, Depression + Addiction, Microbiome/cytokines + Addiction, Cognitive disorders + Alcohol, Neural stem cells, Neurogenesis and Addiction, Food Addiction, and Poly-drug Addiction.

Contents:

1. Neurobiological aspects of pain in the context of alcohol use disorder

Jessica A. Cucinello-Ragland and Scott Edwards

2. Pain, negative affective states and opioid-based analgesics: Safer pain therapies to dampen addiction

Nicolas Massaly, Tamara Markovic, Meaghan Creed, Ream Al-Hasani, Catherine M. Cahill and Jose A. Moron

3. The neural, behavioral, and epidemiological underpinnings of comorbid alcohol use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

Hannah N. Carlson and Jeff L. Weiner

4. Cannabis use and posttraumatic stress disorder comorbidity: Epidemiology, biology and the potential for novel treatment approaches

Veronika Kondev, Nathan Winters and Sachin Patel

5. Traumatic brain injury and the misuse of alcohol, opioids, and cannabis

Alejandra Jacotte-Simancas, Elizabeth A. Fucich, Zachary F. Stielper and Patricia E. Molina

6. Depression and substance use disorders: Clinical comorbidity and shared neurobiology

Cali A. Calarco and Mary Kay Lobo

7. The role of gut-immune-brain signaling in substance use disorders

Kelsey E. Lucerne and Drew D. Kiraly

8. Bidirectional causality between addiction and cognitive deficits

Patrick R. Melugin, Suzanne O. Nolan and Cody A. Siciliano

9. Drug addiction co-morbidity with alcohol: Neurobiological insights

M. Adrienne McGinn, Caroline B. Pantazis, Brendan J. Tunstall, Renata C.N. Marchette, Erika R. Carlson, Nadia Said, George F. Koob and Leandro F. Vendruscolo