| 词条 | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |
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The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. The NIAAA functions both as a funding agency that supports research by external research institutions and as a research institution itself, where alcohol research is carried out in‐house.[1] It funds approximately 90% of all such research in the United States.{{cn|date=April 2018}} The NIAAA publishes the academic journal Alcohol Research: Current Reviews. Extramural researchExtramural research is research conducted by organizations outside the NIH with NIH support through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements. NIAAA’s extramural research includes both clinical and basic science research. Clinical research comprises more than 30 percent of NIAAA’s extramural research, and includes programs in:
The laboratories and researchers housed within NIAAA seek to unravel the biological basis of alcohol use disorders and related problems, and to develop new strategies to prevent and treat these disorders. See also
References1. ^Addiction (June 2011), 106 (6), pg. 1052-1060 Markus Heilig; Kenneth R. Warren; George Kunos; Peter B. Silverman; Brenda G. Hewitt External links
4 : National Institutes of Health|Alcohol abuse in the United States|Alcohol in the United States|Medical and health organizations based in Maryland |
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