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The Cycle of Alcohol Addiction National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism NIAAA
The innovations enabling discoveries also have generalized to other areas of neuroscience, exemplified by our understanding of neural degradation with chronic alcoholism and repair with sobriety. Original concepts of brain structure modification were unidirectional—that is, degradation occurred with age or disease without the chance of neuronal regeneration. Now, evidence supports the possibility of neurogenesis as […]
How To Naturally Flush Alcohol Out Of Your System
Alcohol metabolism plays a crucial role, with the liver breaking down alcohol into less toxic substances for elimination. Alcohol is a toxin, so your body prioritizes breaking it down to eliminate it quickly. The liver produces enzymes like alcohol dehydrogenase to convert alcohol into acetaldehyde and then into acetate. These byproducts are eventually broken down […]
Sober Housing
The first Oxford House was opened in 1975 in Maryland when the founder’s halfway house closed due to funding cuts. Since then, homes operating under the Oxford House model have spread across the country – as of 2012, there were 1,500 homes. You can also look into Oxford Houses, which provide all recovering users the opportunity […]
Break the cycle of addiction with these strategies to keep dopamine in check : Life Kit : NPR
Social isolation can occur as individuals withdraw from friends and family, either out of shame or to hide their substance use. Over time, repeated drug use can actually change the structure and function of the brain. These changes can persist long after drug use has stopped, which helps explain why addiction is considered a chronic, […]
How Vitamin D Regulates The Role Of Dopamine In Brain Cells
Imaging studies have long found that the loss of grey matter volume as well as the disturbances to white matter microstructure typically seen in alcohol dependence are exacerbated with age [10,27,33,34,35,36,37,38]. This phenomenon has also been investigated using the brain age paradigm, an approach that investigates healthy brain aging by estimating chronological age from neuroimaging […]