Article: Alcohol consumption can damage hearing.

2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although alcohol researchers believe that drinking can cause brain damage, the quantity of alcohol and the length of time needed to accomplish this remain unknown.

In Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, scientists in Germany specified the damage that cumulative, life-long alcohol consumption can inflict on central auditory pathways, which is reflected as hearing loss.

"The main problem with identifying alcohol-related brain damage has been to identify those lesions caused by alcohol itself vs. those caused by other common alcohol-related factors, such as thiamin deficiency," said Elisabeth Stephanie ...

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