Sentences with phrase «predisposition for alcoholism»

Just like someone with a genetic predisposition for alcoholism avoiding alcohol, those with certain genetic traits should avoid certain behaviors to help avoid setting themselves up for an eating disorder.

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Clearly, drinking alcohol can lead to alcoholism, but it is also clear that most alcoholics have this predisposition from birth, waiting for the first dropper of alcohol - based cough syrup or spoonful of narcotic croup remedy.

So one of the aspects that we could think about are pharmacologic treatments — can we begin to target these different pathways and these different predispositions that a person has, so treatment for their alcoholism is most effective?

But then we have these other variants that are the GABA receptor, which is much more of kind of a general disinhibition, so it's a general type of predisposition that a person has, and individuals are at risk for a variety of different behaviors including alcoholism [and] other types of impulsive behavior.