Binge Drinking Has Different Effects on Male and Female Brains

Binge drinking changes the pattern of gene expression in an area of the brain called the nucleus accumbens (NAc), which is linked with addiction. A new study in mice by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University, and VA Portland Health Care System has now shown that gene expression changes that occur in response to binge drinking are very different in the NAc regions of males and females. Whereas in male mice the gene expression differences impacted on neurotransmitter metabolism and