People who struggled with binge drinking in their teen years may soon have the option to hit a factory reset on their brains, according to scientists who released a new study on alcohol and how it affects our brains.
A new study was released in the journal ScienceAdvances. The team was able to modify genes in adult mice. According to a press release the university published in early May, the team studied animals equivalent to 10 to 18 human years old.
Early binge drinking can have long- lasting and significant effects on the brain, and the results of this study offer evidence that gene editing is a potential antidote to these effects, offering a kind of factory reset for the brain, if you will.
Those who had undergone the gene editing technique didn't seem to exhibit as much anxiety while completing mazes as those who hadn't.
Our species is very different from mice, so how much we can learn from them has been called into question in the past, but Pandey and his team have been studying alcohol abuse for years. The core part of the brain that is responsible for a lot of emotional regulation, the amygdala, is shown to be changed by alcohol. According to the study, people who started binge drinking before 21 were more likely to have related problems.
The National National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded the newest study, so hopefully people who have struggled with addiction in the past can find new relief.
We will toast that with non- alcoholic beer.
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