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The purchase and consumption of alcohol and substances often increases during the holiday season, and while some may drink to celebrate, others may drink to suppress their feelings.
The new treatment involves using a spinal cord stimulator that sends electrical impulses into the spinal cord. The device responds to the spinal cord in real time and can adjust the electrical output 50-100 times per second based on what is happening in the spinal cord.
Newly funded research by the McKnight Foundation will study whether genetic links contribute to addiction and relapse.
Record $95 million Heersink lead gift to advance strategic growth and biomedical innovation.
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As the country has grappled with an opioid crisis and with COVID-19, a third crisis has brewed. Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.

This work is a step forward in understanding early molecular changes that influence the development of addiction, and may have application to the role of similar gene programs that mediate other types of behavior, memory formation or neuropsychiatric disorders.

The diet increased quality of life, and it decreased serum levels of the adipokine leptin and a marker of oxidative stress.