Alzheimer's Drug Repairs Brain Damage After Alcohol Binges In Rodents
- Released On:February 15, 2018
- Credits:
- Duke Health
DURHAM, N.C. -- A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.
In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, scientists demonstrate in rats that a short duration of the drug donepezil can reverse both structural and genetic damage that bouts of alcohol use causes in neurons, or nerve cells, in the young brain.
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