Alcohol for brain energy: Risks for dependence

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Channel: Yale University · 2013 · Education

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Yale researchers have discovered that the brains of chronic heavy drinkers have twice the capacity of those of light drinkers to consume a chemical that may add to impairment and some other effects of alcohol. This added capacity may also increase the vulnerability to alcohol dependence, according to the study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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