There are medications available to help people who drink excessive amounts of alcohol reduce or stop their drinking. (sciencedaily.com)
In the new study, Ron and first author Emmanuel Darcq, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow now at McGill University in Canada, found that when mice consumed excessive amounts of alcohol for a prolonged period, there was a marked decrease in the amount of BDNF in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region important for decision making. (sciencedaily.com)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of mental and physical defects that develop in some unborn babies when the mother drinks excessive amounts of alcohol during pregnancy. (pregnancy-info.net)