Binge-drinking during adolescence may perturb brain development at a critical time and leave lasting effects on genes and behavior that persist into adulthood. The findings, by researchers at the ...

Funded by a five-year, $7 million federal grant, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine will create a new center, the first of its kind, to study the effect of long-term alcohol ...

Based on high-throughput sequencing experiments conducted on animal models of alcohol exposure, scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) found that even small quantities of alcohol ...

This new funding will allow us to continue our investigations into how binge drinking in adolescence causes epigenetic changes and impacts physical and mental health, including addiction, later in ...

A new rodent study shows that even small quantities of alcohol can trigger epigenomic and transciptomic changes in brain circuitry in an area that is crucial in the development of addiction. A new ...

Everybody makes mistakes, and people who struggled with binge drinking in their teen years may soon have the choice to hit a “factory reset” button on their brains, according to scientists who ...

Another quality of the rats interested Subhash Pandey of the University of Illinois at Chicago. "When they drink alcohol," Pandey says, "their anxiety disappears." Pandey wanted to find out what was ...