A medication intended to treat a common skin ailment has been found as a "extremely promising" treatment for alcohol consumption disorder by researchers from Oregon Health & Science University and other institutions throughout the country.
Findings of a new study imply that even a single drinking incident might lay the foundation for alcohol addiction and permanently alter brain by changing the shape of the nerve cells
The discovery, reported online on June 6, 2022, in Molecular Psychiatry, illuminates the molecular details of the brain's response to alcohol withdrawal, and suggests that the immune protein, colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF1), could be a target of future treatments for alcohol use disorder (AUD).