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How does alcohol affect the coordination?

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Dr. Julie Abbott answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

The principle: mechanism is the slowing of communication from the brain to muscles and nerves. There is a loss of precision motor skills. Additionally, with increased processing time and decreased accuracy of information transmitted throughout the central nervous system reaction time is slowed. The loss of coordination and slowing in reaction time results in a tremendous number of injuries and deaths:(

Answered 12/8/2016

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