US researchers conducted a study using MRI procedure, which took place 200 students. Professionals interested in the role played by the brain in the emergence of craving for alcohol. The experiment of Americans gave the answer to this question.
Alcoholism is very difficult to treat because of the fact that his cause immediately a number of factors, both physical and psychological specifically. The Telegraph reports that US researchers from Duke University in North Carolina were able to get information that sheds light on the puzzle by alcoholism and physiology, and psychology. In particular, the researchers found that the craving for alcohol is caused by two things: the structure of the human brain and its inability to relax.
As shown by MRI scans, the students who were looking for alcohol out of difficult situations, trying to arouse a sense of reward. However, the sense of risk they were clearly underestimated, that did not give them to calculate the safe dose of alcohol and alcohol abuse provoked. This feature, according to scientists, because in the brains of alcoholics at a special function chains, which are linked to the promotion and the sense of danger when they try to solve their problems with alcohol, a sense of danger have dropped sharply, and the desire to promote, on the contrary, enhanced. According to doctors, it all suggests that alcoholism is based on neurological premises
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