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> NEW YORK TIMES
> February 8, 2001
> Women's Brains Are More Vulnerable to Alcoholism
> By REUTERS
> Filed at 10:31 a.m. ET
>
> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women's brains may be particularly vulnerable
> to the damage caused by alcoholism, new research findings suggest. The
> study
> is the first to show distinct gender differences in the brain
``shrinkage''
>
> that strikes alcoholics.
>
> Lead author Dr. Daniel W. Hommer told Reuters Health that the study adds
to
> work showing that women may be more prone to liver and heart damage from
> alcohol abuse. ``We're showing that the brain is basically the same as
> these organs,'' he said.
>
> Hommer and his colleagues at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
> Alcoholism in Bethesda, Maryland, report their findings in the February
> issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
>
> Full text:
> http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/health/health-alcoholism.html