10.15.08
Alcohol shrinks the brain
This article talks about how drinking shrinks the brain.
They decrease in size by about 2 percent per decade, and the brains of drinkers may shrink more quickly, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of Neurology, a publication of the American Medical Association. Those who drank most saw the most shrinkage. Women’s brains suffered more than men’s, perhaps because women tend to be smaller than men and may metabolize alcohol differently.
However, the study was not able to show what effect this had on cognitive abilitity.