CREB, alcohol and anxiety :The Scientist [2007-06-01]


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	By Kerry Grens

CREB, alcohol and anxiety Addiction pathways in the brain are complicated, and alcoholism might be the most complex. "Drugs act very differently in the brain, and among them alcohol is the most different," says Markus Heilig, clinical director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). While most drugs of abuse are receptor-mediated, "the problem with alcohol is it gets into everything. It gets