National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Study Finds Chronic Alcohol Use Shifts Brain's Control of Behavior

Chronic alcohol exposure leads to brain adaptations that shift behavior control away from an area of the brain involved in complex decision-making and toward a region associated with habit formation, according to a new study conducted in mice by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. he finding provides a biological mechanism that helps to explain compulsive alcohol use and the progression to alcohol dependence.

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