HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?

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.....the most revealing keepsake in this room is a collage of beer coasters, which Howard Dean collected as an exchange student in England. It’s a memory of another life. Asked about Dean’s student hobbies, friend Ralph Dawson, now a Manhattan lawyerDawson offers an amused reply: “Well, he drank.”

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health - A few days of binge drinking can lead to the almost immediate death of brain cells, new research conducted in laboratory animals confirms.

"Very high alcohol consumption, even for a short period of time, damages the brain," study lead author Dr. Fulton T. Crews, professor of pharmacology and director of the center for alcohol studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Reuters Health.

Studies of alcoholics have found that heavy consumption of alcohol can lead to neurodegeneration, death of brain cells and reduced brain tissue mass, and subsequent damaging effects such as a lack of impulse control and difficulty in setting goals.

"It might not just be a one-day celebration," he warned. "Once you've lost these brain cells, they're probably gone forever--how would you ever know?"

SOURCE: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 2002;26:547-557.

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HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?

All of them, apparently.

[zarf]

[The_Victor]

Both of them.

[Hegemony Cricket]

More important, however, is the question - Did he ever engage in Bartender-shopping?

[RushCrush]

Enough for beer goggles, apparently.

[theDentist]

None, but he's deeply in debt now, cell-wise.

[Constitution Day]

Ding ding ding!!

No more calls, we gots a winnah!

[kittymyrib]

I think some prosecutor should seize his medical records and make them public so we can find out if he still has some brain cells working.

[zerosix]

My comment to Mr. Dean is, "When did you stop being a drunk? You're still acting like one."

[evets]

Dude! I am so wasted!

[Brilliant]

In order to lose brain cells, you must first have them.

[proxy_user]

A double-edged sword. I wouldn't go that road.

[proxy_user]

A double-edged sword. I wouldn't go that road.

[Mr. Lucky]

Both of them?

[Born Conservative]

[PBRSTREETGANG]

A double-posted sword, at the very least.

[Focault's Pendulum]

I am Spartucus!!!

[Doctor Stochastic]

HOW MANY BRAIN CELLS DID HOWARD DEAN LOSE WITH HIS BINGE DRINKING?

Only the weak ones.

[cookcounty]

Had to be a lot of cells. He's a medical doctor. yet is incapable of intelligently discussing, medically, scientifically, what happens in a partial birth abortion.