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Researchers find alcoholics display abnormal brain activity when processing facial expressions

(Boston University Medical Center) Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found that individuals who have a long history of alcoholism, but who have been abstinent for at least a month up to many years, showed abnormal brain activity when looking at facial expressions of others. The findings, which appear in the August 11 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, confirms that alcoholics suffer from abnormalities in parts of the brain that control emotional perception and memory. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)