Drinking alcohol can also cause both short term and long term changes to your brain. Here’s what you need to know.

Alcohol can increase your risk of cancer, but it can also prevent some heart attacks. Here's the complicated truth.

Heavy drinking increases the risk of ICH through several overlapping mechanisms. One is that "alcohol accelerates brain ...

Alcohol affects more than just your mood, it can harm your brain and nervous system over time. Neurologists explain how ...

Share on Pinterest Heavy drinking can cause brain abnormalities that could increase the risk for cognitive decline. Image credit: Martí Sans/Stocksy. The full effects of drinking are something experts ...

The 2025 National Policy for the prevention, management and control of Alcohol, Drugs and Substance Abuse sparked a lot of hullabaloo as soon as it was released resulting into the National Authority ...

Research also shows that alcohol disrupts the blood brain barrier , the protective shield that prevents harmful substances ...

Alcohol contributes to more than 200 health conditions, fueling a staggering 175,000 deaths each year across the U.S. Globally, the toll reaches nearly 3 million lives. Despite these alarming numbers, ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week could have a damaging effect on the brain, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The Drug Education Council is putting their heads together to help students think smarter about brain health. Standing 12 feet tall and stretching 18 feet long, the megabrain is ...