What is the effect of alcohol on brain?

Answer 1

Effects of alcohol in the brain are confusion, reduced coordination, poor short-term memory (poor recall of recent events), psychosis (loss of contact with reality)
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Answer 2

Structural damage to the brain resulting from chronic alcohol abuse can be observed in different ways:

Results of autopsy show that patients with a history of chronic alcohol abuse have smaller, less massive, and more shrunken brains than nonalcoholic adults of the same age and gender.


The findings of brain imaging techniques, such as CT scans consistently show an association between heavy drinking and physical brain damage, even in the absence of chronic liver disease or dementia.
Brain shrinking is especially extensive in the cortex of the frontal lobe2 - the location of higher cognitive faculties.
The vulnerability to this frontal lobe shrinkage increases with age.3 After 40 some of the changes my be irreversible.
Repeated imaging of a group of alcoholics who continued drinking over a 5-year period showed progressive brain shrinkage that significantly exceeded normal age-related shrinkage. Moreover, the rate of shrinkage correlated with the amount of alcohol consumed


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.



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Wernicke–Korsakoff Syndrome
Up to 80 percent of alcoholics, however, have a deficiency in thiamine and some of these people will go on to develop serious brain disorders such as Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) WKS is a disease that consists of two separate syndromes, a short–lived and severe condition called Wernicke’s encephalopathy and a long–lasting and debilitating condition known as Korsakoff’s psychosis


Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Drinking during pregnancy can lead to a range of physical, learning, and behavioral effects in the developing brain, the most serious of which is a collection of symptoms known as fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). Children with FAS may have distinct facial features (see illustration). FAS infants also are markedly smaller than average. Their brains may have less volume (i.e., microencephaly). And they may have fewer numbers of brain cells (i.e., neurons) or fewer neurons that are able to function correctly, leading to long–term problems in learning and behavior

Answer 3

O H God: we are studying this from the child hood
drinking of alcohol how our brain system affected and the speech, walking etc we are seeing: Test it and write about it parochially

Answer 4

the brain receive & send signals through neurons when alcoholic blood comes in contact with neurons it cause adverse effect n transport of neurons so the message is not received or sent properly

Answer 5

Your brain will stop working and you will start thinking from HEART

Answer 6

Sometimes it makes you as witty as one of mel Gibson's Jew jokes. Other times it makes you appreciate sleep.

Answer 7

you might forget things.