aberrant gene expressions with other substances.
One of the studies will analyze a database, compiled by Harvard and MIT, and then show how thousands of drugs trigger the changes in human brain cells.
Researchers hope to figure out which drugs offer the best chance of resetting an alcoholic’s brain to a non-alcoholic’s brain.
The research series will be funded by the National Institutes of Health and will use brain imaging, a method of studying the brain’s genes and human clinical trials to identify and test possible drug addiction treatments and other methods to mitigate substance abuse.
Author: Ryan Beitler
An editor and contributor to Addiction Now, Ryan Beitler is a journalist, fiction writer, musician, and travel writer. He has written for Paste Magazine, OC Weekly, numerous addiction recovery publications, and his travel blog Our Little Blue Rock. He lives in Southern California. Contact Ryan at ryanrbeitler@gmail.com or ryanb@addictionnow.com.
