Scary and sad as it was for her, after all those years together, if Ray continued to refuse to accept help, she was going to file for divorce. The common but mistaken view of addiction as a brain disease suggests that there is some malfunction in the brain that leads to addiction. Studies show that […]

This can lead to traumatic family surveillance and even separation, not surprisingly disproportionately impacting Black, Latinx, and Native American families because of racist implementation in these reporting practices. An alternative to operant procedures, free-choice responding allows researchers to examine alcohol consumption and preference in rats in their home-cage environment. In this procedure, alcohol is available […]

There is a strong link between alcohol use and depression, a mental health condition that includes feelings of hopelessness, emptiness, fatigue, loss of interest, and more. But does regular drinking lead to depression, or are people with depression more likely to drink too much alcohol? In this case, manic episodes last for a week or […]

Patients with ARD and WKS have shown cognitive improvement following treatment with memantine, although these findings require replication [68, 69]. Finally, these socially isolated patients are often hospitalized for another health condition and this presents an ideal opportunity for screening, identification, and intervention. It can reduce the size of the hippocampus, the area of the […]