USC · alcohol research 2025
Studying Alcohol, the Liver, and the Brain
Hepatic steatosis, intake, and cognition in mice
Work on whether ethanol-induced fatty liver feeds back into how much alcohol mice choose to drink — and into how well they think afterwards.
Abstract published Alcohol researchHepatic steatosisCognition
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The abstract
Ethanol-Induced Hepatic Steatosis May Contribute to Increases in Voluntary Alcohol Intake and Cognitive Deficits in Mice — published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research abstract proceedings.
The framing is a loop rather than a line: drinking damages the liver, and the damaged liver may make the drinking worse and the thinking harder.
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This is one of the threads that fed into the independent gut–brain project — alcohol metabolism kept showing up in both.
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