Booze Can Shrink Your Brain

Long ago, Geezer observed that drinking alcohol does not make people smarter. Now we know it makes them dumber, although the amount of booze required for serious damage is, well serious. Foodconsumer.org reports on research conducted at Wellesley College, involving 1,839 adults who were part of the Framingham Offspring Study.
Study subjects underwent magnetic resonance imaging and a health examination. Foodconsumer reports that, while all brains shrink with age, the brains of people who had more than 14 drinks per week had an average 1.6 percent reduction in the ratio of brain volume to skull size compared to people who didn’t drink.
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