Material below summarizes the article Alcohol Elicits Functional and Structural Plasticity Selectively in Dopamine D1 Receptor-Expressing Neurons of the Dorsomedial Striatum, published on August 19, 2015, in JNeurosci and authored by Jun Wang, Yifeng Cheng, Xuehua Wang, Emilty Roltsch Hellard, Tengfei Ma, Hannah Gil, Sami Ben Hamida, and Dorit Ron.
Alcohol use disorder (or alcoholism) is a widespread illness and considered to result from abnormally enhanced learning and memory processes. However, the detailed mechanisms underlying this illness are not understood well, and the therapeutics are also limited.
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Jun Wang is an assistant professor in the department of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center. His research concentrates on identifying the neurobiological basis of neuropsychiatric diseases particularly the alcohol use disorder.
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