Alcohol and Head Trauma

Alcohol has a paradoxical effect on mortality of patients admitted to hospital with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), shows the study led by trauma surgeon Dr. Homer Tien out of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

For the inexperienced traveler, Aubrey Gilbert's "whirlwind tour of your nervous system" blows past the hippocampus and cortex of the frontal lobes like a five-day package excursion through the great cities of Europe.