The Lasting Toll of Stress and Booze on Brain Function A recent study from the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shed light on the long term effects of using alcohol to cope with stress in early adulthood.
While chronic drinking is well documented to have deleterious consequences for brain health, this research highlights the profound and lasting changes that occur when we combine stress and heavy drinking.
The study's authors focused on mice, but their results offer a disturbing insight into how our brains adapt – or fail to adapt – to the combination of stress and heavy drinking.