AASMnet.org - Long-term alcoholism affects sleep even after long periods of abstinence, and the pattern of this effect is similar in both men and women, according to a study in the journal SLEEP.
Results indicate that in long-term alcoholics who had not had a drink for up to 719 days, the percentage of slow wave sleep [...]

Med.UNC.edu - Unfortunately, too many people will drink too much alcohol during the holiday season, and find themselves waking up with hangovers (and hopefully not worse consequences from alcohol use).
For those folks, the bad news is that while myths about hangover “cures” abound, there isn’t a single one that has been scientifically proven to work, [...]

Alcohol’s intoxicating effects are familiar to everyone. But the molecular details of alcohol’s impact on brain activity remain a mystery. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies brings us closer to understanding how alcohol alters the way brain cells work.
Their findings, published in the current advance online edition of Nature [...]

Uni-Heidelberg.de - Just one drink can quickly go to your head. Researchers in Heidelberg tested this well-known adage. Only six minutes after consuming an amount of alcohol (ethanol) equivalent to three glasses of beer or two glasses of wine, leading to a blood alcohol level of 0.05 to 0.06 percent, changes have already taken place [...]

Someone who has a low level of response (LR) to alcohol, meaning relatively little reaction to alcohol, has a higher risk for developing alcoholism and alcohol-use disorders (AUDs). A study that examined the influence of LR in conjunction with other characteristics – like family history of AUDs and age of drinking onset – has found [...]

JAMA / Archives - Many people who have had problems with depression and alcohol have been attracted to the controversial “self-medication” hypothesis - that is, the idea that some people start to drink to temporarily relieve depressive symptoms. Now a new carefully designed study suggests that the opposite may be true.
A statistical modeling study suggests [...]