AUD is a highly prevalent condition in the world population that causes medical, psychological, personal, social and economic problems. The most severe dimension of AUDs is alcohol dependence, a condition in which individuals lose control over alcohol intake despite the negative consequences.Although some medications have been approved for this purpose, existing pharmacotherapies are not effective for all people due to the heterogeneity of AUDs. …

The sales estimates in this report are based on US retail sales data provided by SPINS, a market research firm based in Chicago, Illinois, and NBJ, a Boulder, Colorado-based publication of the New Hope Network, an Informa media company that is focused on the natural products industry.NBJ provided estimates of total herbal supplement sales in the United States, as well as sales broken down by retail channel (mass market, natural and health food, a…

During the last decades, emerging investigations have focused on the role of lipid transmitters, instead of traditional neurotransmitters, as targets for many neuropsychiatric disorders. Lipid transmitters are small molecules that are primarily generated enzymatically by the cleavage of phospholipids, which are structural components of the cell membrane. Among lipid transmitters, acylethanolamides such as OEA and palmitoylethanolamide have been s…