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Scientists have learned how long it takes for the brain to recover from alcoholism
The brain is capable of rebuilding its structure after stopping binge drinking, and US researchers have found that it doesn't take long for this to happen
22 May 2024 -
Alcohol-neutralising gel successfully tested on mice
Scientists seem to have found a way to make drinking hot drinks less harmful to the body
15 May 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