Alcoholic Parents: What Does It Do To a Child's Brain?
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Studies have shown that children of alcoholic parents exhibit the same brain types as soldiers who have been in war. What is it that causes these similarities? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen discuss what exactly happens to the children of alcoholics.
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:02.0 | Today we're going to talk about a Welcome back. |
| 1:03.0 | Today we're going to talk about a subject that is near and dear to my heart even though I didn't grow up in an alcoholic home |
| 1:10.0 | is we're going to talk about the long-term impact and talk about children and grandchildren of alcoholics. |
| 1:20.0 | Alcohol devastates the brain. |
| 1:23.0 | It's one of the most common preventable causes of Alzheimer's disease. |
| 1:31.0 | So I have a question. |
| 1:32.0 | When you say adult children of alcoholics how do other |
| 1:36.1 | substances weigh in on this you know it's actually very similar you can be an adult |
| 1:41.6 | child of a cocaine addict. |
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