May 1, 2025 -- How much alcohol is actually safe – and are there any true health benefits? We speak with David Nutt, MD, author of Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, to explore what ...

Short-term, alcohol slows brain processing, triggers the reward system, reduces stress and pain, impairs spatial thinking, and can cause memory lapses or blackouts. Long-term, alcohol damages the ...

No level of alcohol is safe for the brain and even light drinking is linked to an increased risk for dementia, results of a large observational study suggested. The research combined observational ...

Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was linked to a higher risk of dementia and measurable brain damage. Andi ...

LONDON - A new study from the United Kingdom found there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for the brain. Several researchers in Oxford, England said more than 25,000 people took part in an ...

For years, the common wisdom and science was that a little bit of alcohol wasn’t bad — and even beneficial — for your health: a toast to moderation. But new research published in BMJ Evidence-Based ...

A new study reveals that excessive alcohol consumption, even at two drinks daily, is linked to earlier and more severe brain ...

People who had 8 or more alcoholic beverages a week more than doubled their risk of developing brain lesions tied to dementia. People who had eight or more alcoholic drinks per week had 133 percent ...

This post is in response to Does Binge Drinking Make Someone an Alcoholic? By Lantie Elisabeth Jorandby M.D. Most people who drink alcohol do so socially and in moderation. But for some, alcohol ...

If you are a daily drinker you may feel a bit worse to start with while your body adjusts to not having alcohol in its system ...

A 2025 study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine found that any amount of alcohol increases dementia risk, even light drinking of one to three drinks a week. Researchers from Oxford, Yale, and ...