Scientists worry that teenage drinking could affect brain development.
Drinking alcohol during adolescence could slow brain development, according to scientists who studied monkeys.
To find out more, the team studied 71 rhesus macaque monkeys at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. The researchers gave the animals unrestricted access to ethanol alcohol and water for 22 hours per day. The team used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of the monkeys at the start of the study before they had consumed alcohol, and at around 6 and 12 months in. They also took samples of the animals' blood.
Christopher D. Kroenke, co-author of the study at the Oregon Health and Science University Advanced Imaging Research Center told Newsweek:"This research affirms that alcohol drinking that begins in late adolescence or young adulthood can interfere with normal brain development. However, Kroenke said that while the researchers had been gathering data on the project for 12 years in male subjects, fewer females had been studied, and so the authors can't be sure of the potential differences between sexes.
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