Cocaine Habit Might Speed Brain Aging

<p>TUESDAY, Apr 24 (HealthDay News) — Chronic heroin use may
speed adult mind aging, a new investigate suggests.</p>
<p><span>British researchers</span> scanned a smarts of 60 people with cocaine
dependence and 60 people with no story of piece abuse, and found
that those with <span>cocaine dependence</span> had larger levels of age-related loss
of mind gray matter.</p>
<p>The heroin users mislaid about 3.08 milliliters (ml) of <span>brain volume</span> a
year, scarcely twice a rate of about 1.69 ml per year seen in a healthy
people, a <span>University of Cambridge researchers</span> said.</p>
<p>The increasing decrease in mind volume in a heroin users was most
noticeable in a prefrontal and temporal cortex, regions compared with
attention, decision-making, self-regulation and memory, a investigators
noted in a university news release.</p>
<p>“As we age, we all remove <span>gray m...