Alcohol damages the brain through neuroinflammation and excitotoxicity
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SUPPORTED
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Multiple peer-reviewed studies establish that alcohol exposure damages the central nervous system through mechanisms that explicitly include neuroinflammation and excitotoxicity.
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Neurotoxicity of Chronic Alcohol Exposure: Mechanistic Insights, Cellular Disruption, and Emerging Therapeutic Strategies.
2025 · cited by 1
Paper 0 details how chronic alcohol exposure induces neurotoxicity via oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and calcium dysregulation.
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Alcohol-induced structural and cellular brain alterations: molecular and histopathological mechanisms.
2026 · cited by 0
Paper 9 explains that chronic alcohol consumption causes neurodegeneration through pathways involving oxidative stress, glutamatergic and GABAergic adaptations leading to excitotoxicity, and microglial and astrocytic neuroinflammation.