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Alcoholism, Biomedical Factors of Addiction (Part 2)

By Kimberly Green ⋅ November 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Predictions
Studies in children below indicate the possibility of detecting neurobiological labels to assist the prediction of alcoholism in adulthood. The observations provide a glimpse of what the path for finding the specific genes that mediate disease.
The difficulties are not few: the clinical heterogeneity and uncertainty that still surrounds the inheritance of alcoholism, pose tremendous challenges. [...]

Alcoholism, Biomedical Factors of Addiction (Part 1)

By Kimberly Green ⋅ November 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Advances in the field of alcoholism in recent years were of vital importance for the understanding of evil, which can be treated but still no cure.
Two main factors associated with the predisposition of compulsive consumption of alcohol: the environment and genetics. Recent discoveries have revealed that it is on the long arm of chromosome eleven [...]

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