Chunk #56 — SUD Prevalence and qEEG Changes — qEEG and ERP Abnormalities in Addiction: Psychopharmacological Effects or Trait Markers? — Heritability and Neurotransmitter Considerations in Substance Use Disorders
It is clear that heritability plays an important role in addictive disorders, however, to what extent environment, perception and synaptic permanency and plasticity influence the course of genetic adaptation or maladaptive traits requires further investigation. Suggested neuroanatomical substrates involved in SUD implicate mesolimbic and diencephalon regions; including the substantia nigra, reticular formation, medial forebrain bundle, nucleus accumbens, septum pediculum, olfactory tubercule and hippocampus and suggest that any concentration of alcohol exposure to these regions would make alcohol use virtually unavoidable (Myers and Privette 1989).
