<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/05-06/changing-what-we-know-about-alcoholism.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories>Research</categories><pubDate>05/06/2025 03:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Changing What We Know About Alcoholism</title><sub-title/><description>More than 35 years ago, Downstate’s Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Lab launched a groundbreaking study on alcohol use disorders. The result, the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA), continues to shape our understanding of addiction, recovery, and the influence of genes, neurodevelopment, and the social environment.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/05-06/_images/porjesz-myers.jpg" alt="the two researchers"/></image><tags><tag>Psychiatry</tag><tag>Research</tag></tags><categories><category>Research</category></categories></item>