Assistant professor Krista Lisdahl Medina is researching the subject with him.
KRISTA LISDAHL MEDINA: “We looked at a very high resolution picture of the brain, where we can actually measure what’s called cortical thickness. So this is a measure of basically how thick their brain matter is.”
The researchers say binge drinking is linked to a loss of thickness in the pre-frontal cortex. They explain the many jobs of this part of the brain.
TIM MCQUEENY: “Regulating somebody’s emotions and controlling behaviors.”
KRISTA LISDAHL MEDINA: “Decision making.”
TIM MCQUEENY: “Controlling attention.”
KRISTA LISDAHL MEDINA: "The ability to inhibit responses.”
TIM MCQUEENY: “Considering consequences.”
KRISTA LISDAHL MEDINA: “Monitoring your environment.”
TIM MCQUEENY: “Acting appropriately.”
KRISTA LISDAHL MEDINA: “And, again, that very important ability to inhibit your impulses to do things.”
A team of American and Canadian scientists is also trying to measure the health effects of binge drinking by students. Dr. Michael Fleming is a researcher at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. He says they studied cases of alcohol-related injuries and blackouts.
MICHAEL FLEMING: “A blackout is a true period of amnesia. It’s a transient acute memory loss that can last from a couple of hours to longer, depending on how much you drank. So we wanted to know whether that put students -- in particular, college students -- at higher risk for injury.”
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