#dopamine response

Increased stress changes brain’s reward centre. That’s why you drink more

  Increased stress can cause changes in brain’s reward centre, which may then lead to a rise in alcohol consumption, a study, with implications to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has found.

In the study, researchers used a rat model to explore the relationship between stress signalling and addictive substance use. Rodents that had been exposed to stress had a weakened alcohol-induced…