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by Sue Halpern
Sue Halpern is scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College and author, most recently, of Can't Remember What I Forgot: The Good News From The Front Lines of Memory Research. See full bio
October 14, 2008, Memory

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Drinking Causes Your Brain To Shrink? What Else is New?

By Sue Halpern on October 14, 2008 in Can't Remember What I Forgot

        Turns out all you need to do is have two drinks (or more) a day and, voila!, honey you've shrunk your brain.  Such is the news coming out today from a study of about 2000 adults:  teetotalers have bigger brains (in volume) than either light drinkers or heavy drinkers, while the brains of heavy drinkers are smaller.  Before you and your shrunken brain pour that bottle of pinot noir down Read More

does this mean you loose

Submitted by amanda on January 27, 2009 - 12:33pm.

does this mean you loose brain cells also?

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