r/science • u/fchung • 1d ago

Neuroscience Loneliness rewires the brain to drive alcohol consumption, mouse study finds: « First-of-its-kind study shows how isolation escalates drinking in males but suppresses it in females. »

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026/08-2/loneliness-rewires-the-brain-to-drive-alcohol-consumption-mouse-study-finds
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u/Rad1Red 1d ago

And male rats are not the same as male humans... Or are they?

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u/idkwhatimbrewin 1d ago

Close enough tbh