Alcohol Cravings In Response To Negative Emotions Felt More Acutely By Men

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 13, 2008

EXCERPT: "Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol."   more

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Chaplin TM, Hong K, Bergquist K, Sinha R. Gender differences in response to emotional stress: an assessment across subjective, behavioral, and physiological domains and relations to alcohol craving. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008 Jul;32(7):1242-50.