Healthy Minds With Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

Binge Drinking and Alcohol Misuse

How excessive alcohol use - especially begun during adolescence - impacts somatostatin levels in the brain causing anxiety, depression, and future cognitive decline, as well as permanent changes to mood and the brain’s pre-frontal cortex. Guest: Nicole Crowley, Ph.D., Director, Penn State Neuroscience Institute University Park, Associate Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering.

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Prioritizing early intervention and education plans to give autistic children more opportunity.