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Neural roots and origins of alcoholism identified – Medical Xpress

The physical origin of alcohol addiction has been located in a network of the human brain that regulates our response to danger, according to a team of British…

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The physical origin of alcohol addiction has been located in a network of the human brain that regulates our response to danger, according to a team of British and Chinese researchers, co-led by the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University in Shanghai.
The medial orbitofrontal cortex (mOFC) at the front of the brain senses an unpleasant or emergency situation, and then sends this information to the dorsal periaqueductal gray (dPAG) at the brain’s core, the latter…

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