Heavy Alcohol Use Causes Long-Term Brain Damage
The physiological mechanisms thought to underlie this ethanol potentiation were reviewed by Morikawa and Mornsett (2010) and include reductions of a barium-sensitive potassium and M-type currents. Ethanol facilitates action potential firing of midbrain dopamine neurons (Figure 2A) difference between aa and na and increases extracellular dopamine levels in the VTA (Deehan et al., 2016) (Figure […]
