Question

What are the Long-Term Effects of Alcohol on the Brain?

Answer 1

• Alcohol-Related Dementia. Heavy drinkers are three times more likely to develop dementia and related effects than the rest of the people.

• Wernicke’s Encephalopathy. This is a condition affecting eye movement.

• Korsakoff’s Syndrome. When left unchecked, alcohol and brain damage can degenerate to Korsakoff’s syndrome.

Answer 2

Long-term effects=heavy drinking causes alterations in the neurons, such as reductions in their size.