Wrinkling alcohol brain?

According to a recent report in The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, as reported by yahoohealth, alcohol drinking habits were contributing to the shrinkage of the brain, particularly the frontal lobes with age. This region is the center of emotion, planning and other noble behavior and is an area susceptible to damage from alcohol.

To test whether the alcohol effect on their brains are not alcoholics, the researchers measured the volume of the frontal lobe more than 1400 inividu 30s to 60 years with an tenik MRI. The older they almost three times more likely to show shrinkage in parts of the brain than those in the age of 30.

According to Drs. Motoo Kubota from Chiba University in Japan, "a lot of alcohol consumption can increase this brain shrinkage, so that this habit should be avoided." The good news is the alcoholic brain damage is not completely irreversible. Those who stopped to restore the brain volume and increase blood flow. The scientists also found that the frontal lobes are shrunk by less than 8% at the age between 30 and 40 years, nearly 16% at the age of 40, 38% at the age of 50, and this figure reached 61% at the age of 60 .

Heavy drinkers doubled likely have brain shrinkage than those who do not drink alcohol, and small consumption does not seem to affect the brain. For ages 30 to 50, drank a lot of risk reduction will double the volume of the frontal lobe of the brain.

The conclusion of this study is that consumption of small amounts of alcohol to moderate does not have a significant influence on the brain, whereas if the amount will be much more encouraging brain shrinkage in middle-aged population. Estimated, the aging process contribute 30% of brain shrinkage, and alcohol consumption by about 10%