Adolescent brains are more vulnerable to alcohol addiction due to their stage in development. What if there were a way to identify the switches that make them more vulnerable and switch them off? Neil Harrison of Columbia University and colleagues looked into this very question. Researchers look into adolescent mice brains and found alcohol consumption leads to deficiencies in working memory. Which may explain why young binge drinkers tend to have bad memory problems, but there may be ways to reverse or circumvent the effects. Drinking alters neuron excitability by ion channel interference within neurons. Perhaps targeting those ion channels could improve working memory problems and ultimately help those with alcohol problems across the board. -->Read more
Good post. Have an upvote. However steemstem tends to favour posts that are longer and support the arguments in their writeups.
I wrote a style guide for STEM posts that you might find interesting (or not, up to you): Procrastilearner's Style Guide For Science and Technology Posts.
Also I noticed that you did not provide a credit or source for your images. The Steemstem curators might downvote you for that (just a friendly heads up).
Hi :)
Just a friendly reminder that steemstem curators do not downvote for not sourcing images.
Please alter this part of your template
Thank you!
All images I use are attribution free stock photos, if attribution is needed, I would cite appropriately. Also the length of post would be based off type, in this case a quick news cap, doesn't warrant a lengthy post, hints as to why I placed the main tag as news, but if you wanted to read further there was the option with the appropriate citations in the original article. In the future, when I make posts about my main subject of area it would be more geared towards @steemstems guidelines
Thank you for responding :)
We would be glad to read more from you!
Dear @dakotashade,
Thank you for including the #steemstem tag in your post
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Katerina