• Alcoholism commonly co-occurs with chronic smoking.
• Both alcohol and nicotine act on the brain’s “drug-reward pathway” or mesocorticolimbic system.
• New findings indicate that alcoholism and chronic smoking have a higher number of common genetic targets than previously…

• Individuals with alcohol-induced Korsakoff Syndrome (KS) are often unable to recall recent events .
• A new study investigates if these memory deficits extend to visuoperceptual learning.
• Findings indicate that alcoholics with KS can learn how to perform new tasks…

Despite recent media attention given to drinking among the college crowd, at-risk alcohol use is neither unique to, nor necessarily the highest among, individuals who complete college, according to a new study.   Results are published in the December issue of Alcoholism: Clinical &…