Traumatic Brain Injury Exacerbates Alcohol Consumption and Neuroinflammation with Decline in Cognition and Cholinergic Activity
Himanshu Gangal, Jaclyn Iannucci, Yufei Huang, Ruifeng Chen, William Purvines, W. Taylor Davis, Arian Rivera, Giles Johnson, Xueyi Xie, Sanjib Mukherjee, Valerie Vierkant, Kaley Mims, Katherine O’Neill, Xuehua Wang, Lee A. Shapiro, Jun Wang
This study shows that traumatic brain injury increases alcohol consumption and impairs cognition by reducing cholinergic activity and increasing microglial cells in mice.
Translational Psychiatry · Oct 16, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience