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Welcome to Topics in Alcohol Research. This site doubles as a resource for information about alcohol and the homepage of me, Aaron White, a research psychologist currently at Duke University Medical Center.
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Blackouts represent the inability to remember things that happened
while one was drinking. Recent studies indicate that they are surprisingly common among young |
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Alcohol use among college students has been a topic of intense interest in recent years. Is the problem as bad as the media and some researchers suggest? This section |
social drinkers, including college students.
This section reviews what is known about blackouts, the types of things that happen
during them, and what alcohol does to the brain to cause them.
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examines current levels of alcohol use among students based on nationwide survey data, the problems that can result from excessive drinking, and the effectiveness of common prevention approaches.
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We once thought that most, if not all, of the important developmental changes in the brain occurred before the teenage years. This notion was wrong. Several areas of the brain are remodeled during adolescence. Because of these changes, alcohol affects adolescent adult brains in different ways. Current knowledge about adolescent brain development and the impact of alcohol is reviewed. |
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Here you can find:
1. Links to alcohol-related sites and resources |
Contains a brief biographical sketch and my curriculum vitae. |
2. Fact sheets, publications, and writings on other topics
3. Resources for finding a job in academia. |
Please feel free to e-mail me if you have questions about the site: aaron.white@duke.edu |
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