Drinking in moderation can reduce the number of traffic accidents and other problems associated with drunkenness, but it does not reduce the impact of alcohol on health. This is what a study conducted by researchers at Oxford University in England showed.
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Scientists studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol consumption of around 25,000 people in the UK and scans of their brains. This is an observational study and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
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The research showed that alcohol consumption had an effect on the brain’s gray matter, areas of the brain that form “important parts where information is processed,” explains lead author Anya Topiwala, a senior clinical researcher at Oxford.
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