@article{ref1,
title="Effects of acute alcohol on excitability in the CNS",
journal="Neuropharmacology",
year="2017",
author="Harrison, Neil L. and Skelly, Mary Jane and Grosserode, Emma P. and Lowes, Daniel C. and Zeric, Tamara and Phister, Sara and Salling, Michael C.",
volume="122",
number="",
pages="36-45",
abstract="Alcohol has many effects on brain function and hence on human behavior, ranging from anxiolytic and mild disinhibitory effects, sedation and motor incoordination, amnesia, emesis, hypnosis and eventually unconsciousness. In recent years a variety of studies have shown that acute and chronic exposure to alcohol can modulate ion channels that regulate excitability. Modulation of intrinsic excitability provides another way in which alcohol can influence neuronal network activity, in addition to its actions on synaptic inputs. In this review, we review &quot;low dose&quot; effects [between 2 and 20 mM EtOH], and medium dose effects [between 20 and 50 mM, by considering in turn each of the many networks and brain regions affected by alcohol, and thereby attempt to integrate in vitro physiological studies in specific brain regions (e.g. amygdala, ventral tegmental area, prefrontal cortex, thalamus, cerebellum etc.) within the context of alcohol's behavioral actions in vivo (e.g. anxiolysis, euphoria, sedation, motor incoordination).<br><br>Copyright © 2017. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0028-3908",
doi="10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.04.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.04.007"
}