الشهر: ديسمبر 2021

It has been linked to a higher risk for dementia, especially early-onset dementia in a study of 262,000 adults, as well as to smaller brain size. While definitions can be variable, one way to look at this is the consumption of 4 or more drinks on an occasion (for women) and 5 or more for …

Quiz: How Much Do You Know About the Health Risks of Alcohol? The New York Times قراءة المزيد »

Craving paradigms use alcohol beverage stimuli (e.g., a chilled glass of foaming beer) to examine differences between alcoholics and control subjects in brain activation in response to alcohol-relevant stimuli (Myrick et al. 2004; Tapert et al. 2003). These studies have resulted in the identification of alcohol reward brain systems (Makris et al. 2008) (see figure …

Everyone deserves addiction treatment that works including those in jail National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA قراءة المزيد »