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Mouse studies suggest treatment target for alcohol problems – 1
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. Experts define impulsivity as action without foresight.
Goldman: Impulsivity is a normal dimension of behavior.
Balintfy: Dr. David Goldman is with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Goldman: But it’s also a dimension of behavior that can be involved in some significant psychiatric diseases.
Narrator: He says impulsivity plays a role in suicide, for example, and diseases like alcoholism and other addictions. Now a multinational research team has found that a genetic variant of a brain receptor molecule may contribute to violently impulsive behavior when people who carry it are under the influence of alcohol. For more on this study, and impulsivity, visit www.niaaa.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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