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It seems that the specific brain wiring of intelligent individuals is also correlated with their relatively strange social relationships with other people, including partners. The stronger effect in participants with close alcoholic relatives suggests that the release of dopamine in response to such alcohol-related cues may be an inherited risk factor for alcoholism, Dr. Kareken […]

Even with alcohol’s effect on dopamine production, you don’t have to continue drinking. Rehab programs will help break the cycle through detox and therapy — either one-on-one or group sessions. These include your age, gender, overall health, body weight, how much you drink, how long you have been drinking and how often you normally drink.

In addition to conditioned responding, the AB tasks employed in the current study also require attentional processes such as alerting, and orientating to stimuli, and executive control function processes relying on dopamine [85]. Thus, the observed AB changes following P/T depletion reflect not only changes to dopamine transients [57] in response to conditioned cues [18,