Study Links Vulnerability of Drug Addicts to Family Ties | TopNews ...

Making an immensely strange disclosure, a recently conducted research, which was carried out by researchers from the University of Cambridge, has revealed that the brains of drug addicts and their family members, siblings in particular, having no addiction at all are a lot different when compared to the brains of unrelated, healthy individuals.

The findings of the study, which have been made available in the recent edition of the journal Science, have highlighted the fact that the inclination towards drug addiction may well be inherited, at least to a fair extent.

While expressing his opinion regarding the findings of the study, along with mentioning the consequences of inherited drug dependency, the lead author of the study, Karen Ersche, revealed that the deviations were spotted while carrying out brain scans on the participants.

During the course of study, the researchers enrolled 150 subjects, and ended up their research by claiming that the deviations are mainly found in regions responsible for monitoring issues like habit-formation and self-control. Therefore, it was clearly found that the odds of a person falling prey to drug dependency increased nearly eightfold in case he/she has a family history of drug addiction.

On the other hand, director of the Bethesda, Maryland-based National Institute on Drug Abuse, Nora Volkow, who was not participating in the study, said: ?We have the means now to develop a potential biomarker for determining poor self-control. That could, for example, be used to identify those at greater risk and develop prevention?.

The researchers further shared that the findings of the study may also stress on the need of recommending strategies for improving self-control as these are likely to offer fair amount of help for people vulnerable to drug dependency.

Source: http://topnews.net.nz/content/221107-study-links-vulnerability-drug-addicts-family-ties

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