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Alcohol poses threat to brain?s neuro-architecture
DIRECTOR OF Psychiatry, anatomy and cell biology of the University of Illinois, Chicago Prof SC Pandey on Tuesday said that alcohol even if adopted as fashion becomes an addiction. He said that there was a mechanism in the neuron to adopt the behaviour of addicted person.
DIRECTOR OF Psychiatry, anatomy and cell biology of the University of Illinois, Chicago Prof SC Pandey on Tuesday said that alcohol even if adopted as fashion becomes an addiction. He said that there was a mechanism in the neuron to adopt the behaviour of addicted person.
He was delivering a lecture on ‘Neurobiological Basis of Alcohol Addiction’ organised by National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) on Tuesday.
Prof Pandey said that the neuron synchronises with the intake of alcohol which may create withdrawal syndrome. “The genes also play very important role in the adaptation of alcoholism. The person inherits some genetics virtues from his parents and if parents were addicted to alcohol then the attributes of alcoholism may transfer to their child. The transfer of such hereditary virtues through genes interferes with the mechanism of neuronal response which is in turn guided by chemo-secretion,” he said.
Prof Pandey, who was invited by American Congress to deliver a special lecture on alcoholism, said that by no way alcohol could be justified and it should not be adopted. One should stay aloof from alcohol and should develop habit as it affects brain response and poses threat to neuro-architecture of brain, he added.
Earlier, he was welcomed by Prof GK Srivastava, member of Higher Education Selection Commission.
The lecture was presided over by Prof BN Dhawan, former director of Central Drug Research Institute and former vice president of NASI.
A special interactive session was also held in which students from various schools participated.
They raised several questions related to the growing habit of consuming alcohol among the youths and other sections of the society. Students also raised queries over behavioural and socio-economic repercussion of alcoholism.
Joint secretary of NASI Dr Neraj said that NASI would hold more such special talks and lectures on issues related with science and society in near future also.
