A toast to your brain's health!As if you needed yet another excuse to visit your neighborhood gay bar. Researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine The New England Journal of Medicine (New Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. that low to moderate alcohol consumption can preserve cognitive function cognitive function Neurology Any mental process that involves symbolic operations–eg, perception, memory, creation of imagery, and thinking; CFs encompasses awareness and capacity for judgment over time. They also say that it might help stave off memory lapses associated with old age and degenerative de·gen·er·a·tive adj. Of, relating to, causing, or characterized by degeneration. Degenerative Degenerative disorders involve progressive impairment of both the structure and function of part of the body. conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. . But while an average of a drink or less a day has been shown in various studies to be good for your brain, overindulging may have the opposite long-term effect. Alcohol certainly won't do anything to help you remember exactly what you did last night if you toss back one too many. |
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