Let's talk about Women alcoholics and their brain? The researchers studied several brain functions of 42 people - a third of them are women - who claim to get addicted for alcohol, along with 28 control subjects who did not become dependent. "We see that individuals who experience alcohol dependence had significantly lower serotonin functions," Berglund said, as quoted by AFP.
The women who participated in the study said they drank alcohol on average the equivalent of 12 bottles of wine a week for four years. While men have been drinking the same amount for 12 years.
Women alcoholics suffer damage to the brain more quickly than those who did not. In women alcoholics, part of the brain that controls mood and sleep are affected encouragement liquor.
According to researchers from Gothenburg University, due to alcohol addicted, women experienced a 50 percent reduction in the functioning of their brains sorotinin. This comes after four years of habit pecandu.Sementara women do to men with the same amount of damage seen after 12 years addicted.
"The decline is growing much faster in women," said one of the researchers Kristina Berglaund who conducted the study with researchers from the Department of Psychology, as well as researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences, Gothenburg University.
Serotonin is a brain neurotransmitter that, among other things, critical to the development and treatment of depression and chronic anxiety. He also mengatir impulse control and the ability to sleep and wakefulness.
