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Heavy Drinking and Health ! Neuropsychological Impairments ! even when sober, chronic alcohol abuse/dependence results in cognitive impairments ! While verbal abilities & IQ in normal range ! Impairment in abstract reasoning, executive functions: concept formation, cognitive flexibility, and perceptualmotor abilities. ! Improves w/abstinence ! Increased Mortality ! heart disease, stroke, cancer, and cirrhosis of the liver. cofactor in cancer of larynx, pancreatic cancer, increased accidental death.
Women More Vulnerable? Women are more vulnerable than men to many of the medical consequences of alcohol use. e.g.,, alcoholic women develop cirrhosis, alcohol–induced damage of the heart muscle (i.e., cardiomyopathy), and nerve damage (i.e., peripheral neuropathy) after fewer years of heavy drinking than do alcoholic men. Studies comparing men and women’s sensitivity to alcohol–induced brain damage, however, have not been as conclusive: 1. Using imaging, two studies compared brain shrinkage, a common indicator of brain damage, in alcoholic men and women and reported that male and female alcoholics both showed significantly greater brain shrinkage than control subjects. 2. Studies also showed that both men and women have similar learning and memory problems as a result of heavy drinking. 3. The difference is that alcoholic women reported that they had been drinking excessively for only about half as long as the alcoholic men in these studies. This indicates that women’s brains, like their other organs, are more vulnerable to alcohol–induced damage than men’s. 4. Other studies have not seen this. http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm
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