What Binge Drinking During Adolescence Does to the Brain
- Released On:April 03, 2014
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Binge drinking during adolescence may interfere with brain development and have lasting consequences on genes and behavior, a new study in rats shows.
In the study, published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease, the researchers mimicked adolescent binge drinking in a population of rats, in order to see how the alcohol affected their brains. The rats, which were 28 days old, were given alcohol for two days in a row and then abstained for two days, alternating for nearly two weeks. Some of the rats in the study were observed into adulthood.
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- Director, Center for Alcohol Research in Epigenetics
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- Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
- Director, Neuroscience Alcoholism Research
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