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Please watch this before making other plainly wrong and unsubstantiated comments like this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199 https://www

by RGamma 8y ago

Please watch this before making other plainly wrong and unsubstantiated comments like this: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199 The stimulant/depressant dichotomy doesn't hold by the way. For instance alcohol's effect on the brain is not only very non-specific but also not very well understood whatsoever (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(drug)#Pharmacology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_(drug)#Pharmacology or the lecture). Or more precisely it (dose-dependently) acts directly or indirectly inhibitory or excitatory simultaneously in various parts of the brain. And whatever mess mixed intoxication causes in your head...

austincheney 8y ago
The physically addictive quality of alcohol has more to do with the liver and less to do with the brain even though alcohol is known to cause brain damage. The primary damage from excessive continuous alcohol consumption over a period of 8 years or more is in the liver resulting in a variety of metabolic and processing disorders. In some cases sudden severe withdrawal can be harmful and possibly fatal as the liver is incapable of processing a variety of normal functions has become partially reliant on the continued alcohol consumption to address some of this functionality. The most clear indicators of brain damage present in withdrawal are destruction of GABA and dopamine receptors that can result in a variety of behavior problems. The dopamine receptor damage is at least partially resultant from the liver damage. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome > Please watch this before making other plainly wrong Perhaps you should have your facts together before attacking people with divisive bias.
- Nursie 8y ago
  You appear to be confusing addiction, which is happening in the brain and is to do with the GABA and other receptors, with the nature of the withdrawal symptoms.

by RGamma 8y ago

austincheney 8y ago

The physically addictive quality of alcohol has more to do with the liver and less to do with the brain even though alcohol is known to cause brain damage. The primary damage from excessive continuous alcohol consumption over a period of 8 years or more is in the liver resulting in a variety of metabolic and processing disorders. In some cases sudden severe withdrawal can be harmful and possibly fatal as the liver is incapable of processing a variety of normal functions has become partially reliant on the continued alcohol consumption to address some of this functionality. The most clear indicators of brain damage present in withdrawal are destruction of GABA and dopamine receptors that can result in a variety of behavior problems. The dopamine receptor damage is at least partially resultant from the liver damage. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_liver_disease * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_withdrawal_syndrome > Please watch this before making other plainly wrong Perhaps you should have your facts together before attacking people with divisive bias.

Nursie 8y ago
You appear to be confusing addiction, which is happening in the brain and is to do with the GABA and other receptors, with the nature of the withdrawal symptoms.