A new study says that mice used to boozing get depressed if they are forced to abstain from alcohol.
Researchers led by Clyde Hodge of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill found that those mice who voluntarily drank moderate amounts of alcohol displayed depression-like behaviour when they were put off from alcohol.
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Alcohol use disorder or alcoholism is an inability to control drinking. It can cause short term and long term physical, as well as psychological effects on the patient.
Alcohol use disorder or alcoholism is an inability to control drinking. It can cause short term and long term physical, as well as psychological effects on the patient.
"The number of new neurons fell by 40 per cent, and that's a lot," The New Scientist quoted Hodge, as saying.
While the abstaining mice became "blue" after almost 2 weeks of taking their last drink, it was found that antidepressants successfully restored their mood.
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However, he cautioned that this should not mean that it is a justification for continuing to drink in order "to feel better".
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