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Loneliness Can Rewire the Brain to Drive Alcohol Consumption
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Loneliness can rewire the brain to drive alcohol consumption
Loneliness can reprogram the brain in ways that push alcohol consumption, reports a new preclinical study led by Northwestern University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The scientists identified, for the first time, a brain mechanism through which isolation escalates alcohol use in male mice but suppresses it in females.
For the first time, scientists have identified the cerebral mechanism that explains that isolation increases alcohol consumption, a link that would be more of a concern to men than to women.
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