How to Change Your Drinking: a Harm Reduction Guide to Alcohol (2nd ed.) by Kenneth Anderson

Author:Kenneth Anderson [Anderson, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The HAMS Harm Reduction Network
Published: 2010-11-04T22:00:00+00:00

Alcohol, Brain Cells, and Brain Shrinkage

It has long been an established fact that actively drinking, alcohol dependent subjects have smaller brain volumes than normal control subjects who do not drink alcohol. Early researchers assumed that this was because alcohol killed the brain cells of alcohol dependent subjects, but current research proves that this hypothesis is largely untrue. Unless there has been brain damage as a result of liver failure or thiamine deficiency, the majority of brain cells of heavy drinkers are intact even though the brain has shrunk. Researchers have also discovered that a long period of abstinence from alcohol or moderate drinking tends to restore the volume of heavy drinker's brains back to normal.

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