Focus on the process of neural adaptation in response to ingestion of addictive substances, and, in particular, alcohol.
Selected Publications:
1. Hines LM, Ray L, Hutchison K, Tabakoff B. (2005) Alcoholism: the dissection for endophenotypes. Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 7(2), 153-63. | pubmed abstract |
2. Hoffman P, Tabakoff B. (2005) Gene expression in animals with different acute responses to ethanol.
Addiction biology, 10(1), 63-9. | pubmed abstract |
3. Tabakoff B, Bhave SV, Hoffman PL. (2003). Selective breeding, quantitative trait locus analysis, and gene arrays identify candidate genes for complex drug-related behaviors.
The Journal of neuroscience, 23(11), 4491-8. | pubmed abstract |