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Published online 16 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050509-15
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Alcohol may hit women's brains harder
Do women pay a higher price for alcohol abuse than men?
Women seem to suffer as much brain damage from booze as men after a shorter period of abuse, says a team of German scientists.
A team led by Karl Mann, an addiction researcher at the University of Heidelberg, compared brain scans of 34 male and 42 female alcoholics; they also looked at scans from more than 30 healthy members of each sex.
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