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Sobriety helps alcoholic brain rebound, study shows
By Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times
Article Last Updated: 01/07/2007 12:38:22 PM MST
In addition to claiming lives, marriages, homes and careers, alcoholism has a greedy way of robbing its victims of brainpower. Over time, alcohol dependence literally shrinks the brain and several of its components. In so doing, it erodes an alcoholic's ability to learn new tasks, remember things and organize for action. Even regular heavy drinking can take a cognitive toll, researchers have found.

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Read the research behind this story in the journal Brain