Borrachos y tontos.

Soy consciente que a las/os visitantes de mi blog no les van demasiado las neurociencias. Pero yo, ere que erre, empeñada en metérselas por las noses. Me importa un pepino lo que piensen. Al menos pillen lo que sigue colegas. El alcohol es una droga como cualquier otra. Lo que pasa es que goza de una aceptación social vinculada a enormes intereses económicos y culturales. Pero el cerebro no aguanta los colocones alcohólicos continuados. Pues eso.


"Men who are habitual heavy drinkers, downing more than two pints of beer every day, are likely to start having the sort of memory lapses, that are commonly associated with ageing, up to six years early, according to a new study.
The long-term effect of alcohol on the brain has not been extensively researched. Most studies have looked at elderly people, who have usually stopped or considerably reduced their drinking.
The paper by scientists at University College London published in the journal Neurology looks at the drinking habits of a large group of middle-aged men and women and their performance in cognitive functioning tests – how well they think and remember things – 10 years later.
It appears to show that heavy drinking, at least in men, leads to significant deterioration over the long term.
Not enough women in the study were heavy drinkers for the scientists to conclude the same things happened to them."