Saturday, April 30, 2005

Alcohol Encourages Brain Cell Regeneration

Not all is gloom and doom with alcohol, one thinks. It all depends if you awoke with a thumping hang over this weekend.As the down side of all this cell regenration is:

"The continuing new formation of cells counteracts the neuronal degeneration, but is also directly connected with the development of an alcohol addiction."

Alcohol Encourages Brain Cell Regeneration: "A moderate consumption of alcohol over a longer period boosts the building of new neurons in the brains of adults. This surprising result was presented by a Swedish team of researchers from the Karolinska Institutet ( http://info.ki.se/index_en.html). The repeatedly produced nerve cells have an important function for the memory and learning aptitudes of the brain"