Binge drinking causes brain damage

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Binge drinking as a young adult causes permanent brain damage decades on

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Binge drinking in early adult years fundamentally changes how the brain's neurons communicate, in what scientists equate to a faulty gas pedal in a car that needs more pressure applied to "go" University of Pennsylvania researchers found that binge drinking in your 20s can result in permanent dysregulation that resemble the faulty neuronal information transmission seen in people with cognitive decline.

It was the same in both male and female brains.

"These studies provide important biological and mechanistic insights into how alcohol as a pharmacological agent chronically alters brain signaling in the aging brain even following protracted abstinence," the researchers noted in the paper. "A promising avenue of future work and potential treatment explorations will be to correlate the neurophysiological changes seen following midlife alcohol exposure with behavioral assessments of cognitive decline." The study was published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging ..

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