ALCOHOL’S DAMAGING EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN

[rosemary44]

Difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory: Clearly, alcohol affects the brain. Some of these impairments are detectable after only one or two drinks and quickly resolve when drinking stops. On the other hand, a person who drinks heavily over a long period of time may have brain deficits that persist well after he or she achieves sobriety. Exactly how alcohol affects the brain and the likelihood of reversing the impact of heavy drinking on the brain remain hot topics in alcohol research today.

We do know that heavy drinking may have extensive and farâ€"reaching effects on the brain, ranging from simple “slips” in memory to permanent and debilitating conditions that require lifetime custodial care. And even moderate drinking leads to shortâ€"term impairment, as shown by extensive research on the impact of drinking on driving.

A number of factors influence how and to what extent alcohol affects the brain (1), including

    * how much and how often a person drinks;
    * the age at which he or she first began drinking, and how long he or she has been drinking;
    * the person’s age, level of education, gender, genetic background, and family history of alcoholism;
    * whether he or she is at risk as a result of prenatal alcohol exposure; and
    * his or her general health status.

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[SSY]

Thanks, normally I would not be too impressed with something about this, or even click on a topic about booze. But your use of all capital letters really swayed me. Consider me sober.

[Tanker]

Hi and welcome to the forum. Perhaps you should visit the introductions subforum and let us know a bit about yourself.

That being said what exactly was your point in making this particular subject your first. Most everyone here is of drinking age and I think all here know the dangers of abusing it. Sorry it just seems a little strange to me to make your first post ever a declaritive statement on the dangers of alcohol. I mean aside choosing this as you first topic, you really haven't left it open to discussion just declared it. That kind of defeats the purpose of a forum after all.


I hear by proclaim that bacon while delicious is bad for your health in large amounts.

See not really a discussion starter just a staement.

[curiosityandthecat]

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[McQ]

Difficulty walking, blurred vision, slurred speech, slowed reaction times, impaired memory: Clearly, alcohol affects the brain. Some of these impairments are detectable after only one or two drinks and quickly resolve when drinking stops. On the other hand, a person who drinks heavily over a long period of time may have brain deficits that persist well after he or she achieves sobriety. Exactly how alcohol affects the brain and the likelihood of reversing the impact of heavy drinking on the brain remain hot topics in alcohol research today.

We do know that heavy drinking may have extensive and farâ€"reaching effects on the brain, ranging from simple “slips” in memory to permanent and debilitating conditions that require lifetime custodial care. And even moderate drinking leads to shortâ€"term impairment, as shown by extensive research on the impact of drinking on driving.

A number of factors influence how and to what extent alcohol affects the brain (1), including

    * how much and how often a person drinks;
    * the age at which he or she first began drinking, and how long he or she has been drinking;
    * the person’s age, level of education, gender, genetic background, and family history of alcoholism;
    * whether he or she is at risk as a result of prenatal alcohol exposure; and
    * his or her general health status.

Well, since this is a direct copy and paste from this site: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm  without citing the reference, and additionally, since all you did was post an ad below for SoberRecovery.com, I think I'm going to say that this is strike one for you, Rosemary44.

I'm just not in a charitable enough mood to consider this anything but spam. Perhaps you can show otherwise?

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[SSY]

You have been so authoratarian latley McQ, has anything in particular brought this on?

( not a criticism )

[curiosityandthecat]

You have been so authoratarian latley McQ, has anything in particular brought this on?

( not a criticism )

Probably just fulfilling his duty as Global Mod and cold, sterile, emotionless computer program.  

[McQ]

You have been so authoratarian latley McQ, has anything in particular brought this on?

( not a criticism )

I am busier than I've been with work and family than I've been in at least ten years. I really don't always have time for spammers, trolls, or crap, so I have been getting right to the point with those types in here.
If you feel I've been too authoritarian, please let me know in which posts so that I can look and see if I need to temper them better.

Since I'm 90% sure this thread was spam, based on what I explained in the first response to the OP, I feel I was actually being pretty fair by not just deleting it and banning the OP outright. At least she has the opportunity to answer, if she's not just spamming.

But Curio could be right too.