Answer: well, let us be quite straight about it: one effect of persistent excessive alcohol consumption is the destruction of a number of brain cells and the shrinking of the brain mass. But alcohol is not done yet: it will quite happily wreak havoc in very complex neural brain systems. It confuses the action of the neurotransmitters that regulate the connections between the brain cells and thus scatters the signals that provide the basis of our thinking and our sensory perception. The result is that our behaviour can be shaped, bent and twisted in all sorts of ways.

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