Find the cause of alcoholism

US researchers believe that found one of the main causes of alcoholism. Dependence on alcohol in humans can cause stress hormone - corticotropin. This discovery could help in the development of new effective treatments for this severe disease.

Alcoholism   is one of the major ills of Russia, it is the cause of many diseases, injuries, crime, premature deaths and birth defects. But mankind still can not explain scientifically why one person is capable of lifelong drink "two or three glasses on holidays" and the other every night spent without "pint", is considered lost.

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in California, suggested that the cause of development alcohol addiction   are corticotropin . Their study lasted for six years, experiments were carried out on animals. But the most important thing in the other - the scientists blocked the rat corticotropin-alcoholics, and painful dependence of these rodents disappeared!

"I am delighted with the results of the study. - Said the project manager Marisa Roberto. - It is an important step in understanding how the brain changes when changes to the state   alcohol addiction . We explored the dark side Alcoholism ".

Dr. Roberto believes that people become alcoholics not because they are pleasant to drink. Liquor relieve feelings of anxiety and anxiety caused by withdrawal syndrome that occurs as a consequence of stress after a long abstinence from alcohol.

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