Health
How to know when holiday drinking is hurting your brain
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer – and, often, alcohol.
Dec 16, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sedatives appear to be safe in alcohol withdrawal syndrome
(HealthDay)—For patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome, treatment with high-dose intravenous sedatives is not associated with excess morbidity or mortality, according to a study published in the February issue of the ...
Feb 12, 2016
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Medications
Half of veterans who died from opioid overdoses also received benzos
In a recent study, nearly half of all veterans who died from drug overdoses while prescribed opioids for pain were also receiving benzodiazepines, or benzos, which are common medications for the treatment of anxiety, insomnia ...
Jun 12, 2015
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Neuroscience
Scientists link brain protein to binge-drinking behavior
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered that a brain protein has a key role in controlling binge drinking in animal models. They found that deleting the gene for this protein in mice ramped up ...
May 11, 2015
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Medical research
Protein controls both alcohol craving and organ damage
What if there was a drug that could simultaneously curb a person's craving for alcohol while also protecting their heart and liver from alcohol's damaging effects? While an actual pill that can do this might be a ways off, ...
Feb 11, 2015
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Health
Alcohol interferes with body's ability to regulate sleep, researchers find
Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine have found that drinking alcohol to fall asleep interferes with sleep homeostasis, the body's sleep-regulating mechanism.
Dec 10, 2014
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Health
Real tremors, or drug-seeking patient? New app can tell
A 42-year-old investment banker arrives at the emergency department with complaints of nausea, vomiting, anxiety and tremor. He drinks alcohol every day—often at business lunches, and at home every evening. Worried about ...
Aug 29, 2014
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Neuroscience
Mutation stops worms from getting drunk
Neuroscientists at The University of Texas at Austin have generated mutant worms that do not get intoxicated by alcohol, a result that could lead to new drugs to treat the symptoms of people going through alcohol withdrawal.
Jul 15, 2014
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Addiction
Anti-craving drug and counseling lower alcohol harm in homeless, without sobriety demands
Chronically homeless, alcohol-dependent individuals might benefit from a new intervention that does not require them to stop or even reduce drinking, according to the results of a preliminary study in Seattle.
May 15, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Major health benefits of music uncovered
(Medical Xpress)—In the first large-scale review of 400 research papers in the neurochemistry of music, a team led by Prof. Daniel J. Levitin of McGill University's Psychology Dept. has been able to show that playing and ...
Mar 28, 2013
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