Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage

Test Shows Alcohol Causing Long-Term Brain Damage

In new rat studies, scientists have found grim evidence of just how badly alcohol impairs cognition — even after sobering up months prior. According to new, federally-funded research out of Johns Hopkins, the decision-making parts of the brain appear, even after months of sobriety, to be highly impacted by large amounts of alcohol. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Advances, Hopkins neuroscientist and addiction research…

New scientific results, published today in Science Advances, provide a new explanation of the lasting effects of alcohol on cognition, i.e. all processes