Alcohol and antidepressants work equally well on the brain?

A new medical study shows the medical power of alcohol is not inferior to antidepressants on the human brain

According to information published in Nature Communications, research shows that alcohol has a function of brain activation that is not inferior to antidepressants .

A group of scientists, including Dr. Kimberly Raab-Graham, Wake Forest of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, said that antagonistic N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) is present in Antidepressants have the function of blocking NMDA receptors, significantly reducing depressive symptoms in the brain for at least two hours, and can even promote long-term effects up to two weeks.

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And the group also pointed out that alcohol is also an alcohol that inhibits NMDA receptor activity , so it also functions like the antidepressant.

To get the above conclusion. The team conducted the selection of genetically modified male mice that caused severe depression, with behavioral deviations caused by depression.

After that, the mice were divided into two groups, one group was given the injection of a very large amount of alcohol, which could be toxic, the other group did not inject.

After 24 hours, rats were carried out to perform experiments on behavior, behavior and swimming ability.

Surprising results showed that mice that were depressed after injecting an extremely high amount of alcoholic activity were able to relieve depression, and behaviors tended to be more positive through neurological experiments. and behavior compared to depressed mice that were not injected with alcohol.

In addition, expanding the study, the team pointed out that alcohol not only has the ability to block the activity of the NMDA depressive receptor, but it also has the ability to block a protein called FMRP . Prescribe autism, alter the activity of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), turn it into a neurotransmitter in the body of autism.

Huynh Dung ( According to Medicalnewstoday)