In a study conducted by researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, attended by two groups of students. One group drank alcohol, another drank once a week three pints of beer (just over one and a half liters). During the week, participants in the experiment to test, during which they had to respond to the flashers. The activity of the brain, as well as speed and accuracy of responses were measured carefully.
It was found that students from both groups cope with the tests equally well: the speed and accuracy of responses in drinking and non-drinking men were no different, writes Daily Mail. However, measuring the intensity of the brain showed that makes alcohol drinkers nervous system operate in a high load.
By applying its own method of measuring the power of the brain, the Spanish scientists have found that at the peak of activity in the brain of a sober group of students, the figure is 18 microvolts. Brain drinkers students work with the index 20 mV, but just a couple of years, the power value grows to 22 microvolts. The researchers believe that the work of a higher voltage can have serious consequences for the nervous system, but their nature requires further study.
Recall that in 2010, German scientists from the University of Heidelberg have found that alcohol has a negative effect on the brain, just six minutes after its use. In the experiment, it was found that in a few minutes Liquor significantly reduces the amount of material responsible for the protection of brain cells. German scientists also concluded that regular consumption of alcoholic beverages greatly reduces immunity and the substance responsible for the protection of cells, restores its volume over a longer period of time.
