Stress, Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) Dysfunction, and Relapse in Alcoholism

Completed

Conditions studied: Alcohol Dependence

In brief

This proposal is part of the INIA Stress Consortium. This study will 1. explore the contributions of lifetime trauma, recent stress, and alcohol use on stress-hormone axis disruption in treatment seeking, one-month abstinent, alcohol-dependent subjects 2. assess the combined contributions of stress-hormone axis disruption and episodic stress on the risk of prospective drinking following treatment 3. determine the role of neurosteroids in alcohol use.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00744588

Run by

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

People needed

75

Starts

2007-08-01

Expected to finish

2012-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-01-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of alcohol dependence

You may not qualify if…

• Medical or psychiatric disorders that may effect stress-hormone axis functioning.
• Medications that may effect stress-hormone axis functioning.
• English speaking.

Where it is running

• UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas — Dallas, Texas, United States

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