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Alcohol abuse after age 40 has been called a symptom of neurodegenerative diseases
The authors of a new study advise people who suddenly become addicted to alcohol late in life to see a neurologist and get checked for neurodegenerative diseases
30 April 2024 -
Scientists have learnt why people lose their memory after drinking alcohol
The authors of a new study have identified three factors responsible for so-called alcoholic blackout, a common consequence of alcohol consumption where a person experiences memory lapses
26 April 2024 -
Binge mutation
American geneticists have found out that the cause of binge drinking can be mutations and damage in the gene GIRK3, disabling which in the body of mice turned them into binge alcoholics.
12 May 2015 -
What do alcoholism and pathological gluttony have in common?
People suffering from alcohol addiction have a great genetic predisposition to bulimia – bouts of uncontrolled gluttony, followed, as a rule, by attempts to cleanse the stomach and intestines of food eaten.
21 August 2013 -
Naltrexone helps drunks. But not everyone
The blocker of opioid receptors of the mu type in the brain – naltrexone – helps men with a certain mutation in the OPRM1 gene to refuse alcohol abuse, and women – even without such a mutation.
25 March 2011