Binge Drinking Harms Teenage Girls' Brains: Do You Ever Binge on Alcohol?
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2011/07/20 16:45:59
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Binge drinking may be worse for your health than you even thought -- especially if you happen to be a teenage girl.
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University found that girls who binge drink (defined as having four or more drinks) showed less activity in several brain regions than male and female teens who don't drink.
"These differences in brain activity were linked to worse performance on other measures of attention and working memory ability," Stanford University psychiatry professor Susan Tapert, a co-author of the study, said, according to AFP.
Male teens who binge drink also showed some differences in brain activity, but less than girls.
And there's more bad news. Edith Sullivan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, warned the brain is still "drunk" long after the party is over.
"Long after a young person -- middle school to college -- enjoys recovery from a hangover, this study shows that risk to cognitive and brain functions endures," Sullivan said, according to AFP.
Do you ever binge on alcohol?
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University found that girls who binge drink (defined as having four or more drinks) showed less activity in several brain regions than male and female teens who don't drink.
"These differences in brain activity were linked to worse performance on other measures of attention and working memory ability," Stanford University psychiatry professor Susan Tapert, a co-author of the study, said, according to AFP.
Male teens who binge drink also showed some differences in brain activity, but less than girls.
And there's more bad news. Edith Sullivan, a professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, warned the brain is still "drunk" long after the party is over.
"Long after a young person -- middle school to college -- enjoys recovery from a hangover, this study shows that risk to cognitive and brain functions endures," Sullivan said, according to AFP.
Do you ever binge on alcohol?
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Top Opinion
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Paul 2011/07/26 22:57:08
Now for young young girls, most definately I wish I'd never started @ 15 but it certainly hasn't done me any harm...according to my welfare payments and Child protective service visits who assure me I'm a most excellent mom.