Too Bad for Rat Taverns –
March 22, 2019 – “What is so exciting about these findings is that we were able to control the motivation to drink alcohol in severely dependent individuals with the flip of a switch,” said Scripps professor Olivier George, told Digital Trends. “By implanting fiber optics deep in the brain and turning on a laser that inhibits these neurons specifically we could dramatically decrease alcohol drinking and the physical symptoms of withdrawal.” For now, we can’t get too excited about a new human treatment immediately stemming from the research, which was recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
