{"id":173088,"date":"2023-09-29T11:19:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/study-shows-promise-of-gene-therapy-for-alcohol-use-disorder"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:37:24","slug":"study-shows-promise-of-gene-therapy-for-alcohol-use-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/study-shows-promise-of-gene-therapy-for-alcohol-use-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Study shows promise of gene therapy for alcohol use disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-shows-promise-of-gene-therapy-for-alcohol-use-disorder.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A form of gene therapy currently used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease may dramatically reduce alcohol use among chronic heavy drinkers, researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University and institutions across the country have found.<\/p>\n<p>The study in nonhuman primates showed that implanting a specific type of molecule that induces cell growth effectively resets the brain\u2019s dopamine reward pathway in animals predisposed to heavy drinking. The gene therapy procedure involves brain surgery, and may be useful in the most severe cases of alcohol use disorder.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Already used in clinical trials to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease, OHSU researchers found surgical treatment dramatically reduced chronic heavy drinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A form of gene therapy currently used to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease may dramatically reduce alcohol use among chronic heavy drinkers, researchers at Oregon Health &amp; Science University and institutions across the country have found. The study in nonhuman primates showed that implanting a specific type of molecule that induces cell growth effectively resets the brain\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173110,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173088\/revisions\/173110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}