Heavy Drinking Harms College Students' Brain Power, Study Finds

(HealthDay News) A night of heavy pours can ruin a college student’s brain power during next day’s classes, a new study has found.

Any drinking at all is linked to a 14% greater likelihood of memory or thinking lapses the next day, researchers reported recently in the journal Alcohol, Clinical and Experimental Research.

Further, each additional drink on a given day increases by 5% the odds that a college student will have a cognitive lapse the next day, researchers found.

As one might expect, high-intensity drinking leading to a blackout had the worst effect, more than doubling the chances of a next-day brain lapse, according to results.

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