Domenic Ciraulo, psychiatry chair and psychiatrist-in-chief at Boston Medical Center,
believes that both alcohol dependence and independence are associated with the brain's frontal lobe -- the region that governs self control.
He aims to prove that medications targeting this area can help alcoholics in their battle with the bottle, especially when combined with short-term therapy. Ciraulo's facility is currently recruiting for a study examining the efficacy of two antiseizure drugs, zonisamide and levetiracetam.
Ciraulo's program and its research are described in the current issue of Bostonia magazine.
If you live in or around Boston and would like to participate in the study, click here.
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