This article covers a large and diverse study of Alcohol use disorder (AUD). This study includes data on over 17,000 individuals that are affected by AUD. Families were chosen for this study that had at least 3 affected individuals in order to focus on familial risk. Data collected from individuals in this study include brain function, psychiatric diagnosis, brain behavior, and genomes. This database has been developing for decades and the data collected has been used to study the cellular levels of underlying AUD. This article emphasizes the importance of finding the risk as well as the resilience to AUD over an individuals life.
One essential part of this article and study as a whole is that this data is available to other databases. The availability of this data allows others to incorporate, add to, and further investigate the impacts of AUD. This is extremely important as it opens up a promising future to the study of AUD which could lead to new avenues of prevention and intervention.
Links:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gbb.12864
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/3909-alcoholism
It’s great that this data is shared with other researchers. By making it available to more people, it helps encourage teamwork and allows for more studies. This could lead to better treatments or ways to prevent AUD.
ReplyDeleteAUD is something that I have always thought was genetic. I love that this database exists and that it is open to other researchers since it makes it more available. By using this database to study AUD I am sure that people can search and find an underlying cause to the disorder, they might even produce better treatments.
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