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Alcohol Doesn't Just Affect Neurons – It Triggers Immune Cells to Destroy The Brain's Structural Matrix, Mouse Study Shows

(Eugene Mymrin/Moment RF/Getty Images) It's well known that alcohol has profound consequences on the way the brain works, and ...

Could Hunger Increase Alcohol Addiction? A New Study Finds Clues in the Brain

A new Brown University study reveals how hunger changes the brain circuits that form alcohol-reward memories in fruit flies. The findings offer fresh clues about how internal states like hunger may ...
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Can hunger increase alcohol addiction?

Hunger may change how the brain remembers alcohol as rewarding, according to experiments in fruit flies. Scientists ...
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National nonprofit calls on National Institutes of Health, USDA to investigate federally funded, decades-long alcohol and reproductive experiments on nonhuman primates at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit medical ethics group, filed a complaint today, May 28, 2025, with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of ...