Recent research suggests that alcohol — just like old bromides that each drink kills (fill in your favorite large number) brain cells — really does hurt brains and particularly those of teenagers, reports Katy Butler in the lead article for the NYTimes’s Science Times section Tuesday. The piece does a commendable job mentioning specific studies, although cryptically in most cases via such identifiers as the name of individual, quoted authors. Among apparent risks are decreased growth of neurons, less resistance to alcoholism, and trouble with memory and spatial skills (presumably even when not buzzed). The Tracker did not try to run down the specific studies, but there appears to be enough info here to find them with the aid of a few search engines. The pic here shows a drinker’s brain on the bottom. The piece also ran with a huge, unusual, illustrated-novel (ie comic book) style graphic.

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