Wednesday, 8 August 2012

Brain Activity Could Predict Heavy Alcohol Use

Patterns of brain activity can help predict teens' heavy drinking behavior, states study published in the iJournal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs/i. Using special MRI scans, researchers looked at 40 12- to 16-year-olds who had not started drinking yet, then followed them for about 3 years and scanned them again. Half of the teens started to drink alcohol fairly heavily during this interval. The investigators found that kids who had initially showed less ...

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