The findings may help us better understand ways that alcohol use during the teen years can lead to long-lasting cognitive and behavioral impairments. Adolescence is a period of rapid brain develop ...

Recent research into the neural effects of alcohol and recreational drugs suggests that the developmental trajectory of the adolescent brain may be particularly vulnerable to pharmacological ...

unlike those of alcohol. The teenagers, from 31 different Canadian schools, gave details of their drug and drinking habits once a year. Their brain skills were also tested every year in school ...

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Alcohol-related brain damage, a condition similar to dementia, is poorly understood and often missed by health professionals, a study by charity Alcohol Change UK says. And patients struggling ...

More than half of Dutch parents with children aged 16 or 17 are comfortable allowing their teens to consume some alcohol ...

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London and the author of Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain. As part of the Woman's Hour ...

Four people have died — including a teenager — after drinking alcohol that authorities say ... Jones’ cause of death was listed as “brain swelling due to high levels of methanol found ...