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1/🧵 Does Alcohol shrink the brain?
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Yes, all liquor can hurt our brains if we drink too much. The disease of Alcoholism, which is NOT the fault of the person afflicted, causes brain injury slowly over time.
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A picture is worth 1,000 words. Look below at a diseased brain…
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Yes, all liquor can hurt our brains if we drink too much. The disease of Alcoholism, which is NOT the fault of the person afflicted, causes brain injury slowly over time.
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A picture is worth 1,000 words. Look below at a diseased brain…
2/ Gray on this CT scan indicates actual brain tissue.
Do you see the black areas pointed out here by RED arrows?
These are called sulci (grooves).
This <40 year old person has VERY large grooves that show the amount of brain tissue as we would see in someone >80 w dementia.
Do you see the black areas pointed out here by RED arrows?
These are called sulci (grooves).
This <40 year old person has VERY large grooves that show the amount of brain tissue as we would see in someone >80 w dementia.
3/ Normally brain grooves are small in young people. See example👇.
When someone gets dementia, s/he can lose actual brain tissue (less gray) and the area fills in with fluid (BLACK - sulci).
SO this is atrophy & manifest in life as memory problems & executive dysfunction.
When someone gets dementia, s/he can lose actual brain tissue (less gray) and the area fills in with fluid (BLACK - sulci).
SO this is atrophy & manifest in life as memory problems & executive dysfunction.
