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How should someone know if alcohol caused them brain damage?
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Abuse: Abusing alcohol has many harmful effects on the nervous system. In absence of other eternal toxic factors, many years of alcohol abuse commonly causes atrophy or "loss of brain cells with a shrunken appearance of the brain".
Answered 4/8/2013
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