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Monday, April 23, 2007

PRESS RELEASE:

Female alcoholics can develop cognitive problems more rapidly than male alcoholics

  • Alcohol abuse and/or dependence can lead to severe and potentially irreversible brain damage.
  • "Telescoping" refers to the greater damaging physical effects that alcohol can have upon women, despite drinking less and for a shorter period of time than men.
  • New findings extend alcohol's deleterious effects on women to include both physiological and cognitive declines.
Researchers and clinicians already know that alcohol abuse and/or dependence can lead to severe and potentially irreversible brain damage. It is also known that women, when compared to men, seem to become more "damaged" by chronic alcohol abuse within a shorter period of drinking and with less overall consumption. A new study shows that female alcoholics may also sustain greater cognitive damage than male alcoholics.

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