Q. Is the addiction to alcohol physical or mental?
In view of the relevance of the effects of alcohol on the developing brain all efforts should be directed towards avoiding or minimizing the risks to which adolescents are subject. It also presents some measures that can be with the aim of preventing the consumption of alcohol among adolescents....
Alcohol Consumption Among Pregnant Women in a Swedish Sample and Its Effects on the Newborn Outcomes Little is known about the effects of low levels of maternal alcohol intake on the neuropsychological development of the child. This study is part of an ong... Erika,Comasco,Gunilla,... - 《...
whereas in other neurons itmodulatesthereleaseofotherneuro-transmitters. Although serotonin’seffect on individual neurons can berather modest, its overall effect onthe neurons in a given brain area cansubstantially influence brain func-tions such as learning and memory,perception of the environment,mood...
Specific brain regions (eg, DLPFC and hippo- campus) and white matter tracts may be particularly vulnerable to such effects and considerably more so in developing brains of adolescents and young adults (Spear, 2000; Tomlinson et al, 2004). In the context of AUD, recent evidence in an ...
Drugs and alcohol are made of a variety of harmful chemicals that have many troubling effects on the body and brain. When a person consumes drugs and alcohol, chemicals make their way to the brain impacting how a person feels, thinks, and behaves. When someone is under the influence of dru...
Histone acetylation in neurons may thus be under the influence of acetate that is derived from alcohol4, with potential effects on alcohol-induced gene expression in the brain, and on behaviour5. Here, using in vivo stable-isotope labelling in mice, we show that the metabolism of alcohol ...
In addition, the journal reports studies on the effects alcohol on brain mechanisms of neuroplasticity over the life span, biological factors associated with adolescent alcohol abuse, pharmacotherapeutic strategies in the treatment of alcoholism, biological and biochemical markers of alcohol abuse and ...
"The good thing about this type of target is that is almost exclusively expressed in the brain, which limits side effects, and it seems to have no effect on individuals who are not dependent," George said in the release. "Those are both positive indication...
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