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Alcohol and the Aging Brain

September 13, 2018 by NIAAA

Double trouble for the prefrontal cortex There’s really no way around it. Like all other organs and tissues of the human body, the brain is subject to the aging process and the typical structural and functional changes that go along with it. With normal aging, the brain begins to shrink in middle age, losing volume … Read more

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