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February 28, 2007
Parental Drinking Stunts Brain Growth in Alcoholic Kids

From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:

Alcohol-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism or problem drinking exhibited reduced brain growth compared to alcohol-dependent people with no family history of alcohol problems, according to new research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

They found that the average intracranial volume of adult alcoholic children of alcoholics was 4 percent lower than that of adult alcoholics with no family history of alcohol problems.

The study was published in the online edition of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

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Posted on February 28, 2007 7:58 PM


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