But if you become physically dependent on alcohol — after years of drinking heavily, for example — the constant ramping up of GABA can cause the brain to produce less of it, and glutamate ...

When you’re drinking an alcoholic beverage, those alcohol molecules bind to GABA receptors and cause the sedative, relaxing effects of GABA to be enhanced. Scientists (including Nutt ...

Alcohol’s sedative effects are also a result of its effects on the brain chemical glutamate, which is a stimulatory ...

Increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and balancing glutamate, brain chemicals called neurotransmitters, may help alleviate symptoms of fibromyalgia (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS).

It can be hard to drink less, for many people, socializing seems to revolve around food and alcohol. Our culture has ...