An article was posted last time about how women are more vulnerable to alcohol than men. Now a new study from Oregon Health and Science University has gathered evidence that suggests that women are also more vulnerable to alcohol withdrawal.

Using mice as their subjects, scientists first identified alcohol-related gene pathways and then subjected these mice to a series of alcohol-related tests (lucky mice). We all know that an alcohol is a poison that kills slowly. One of the scarier things it does is cell death in the brain.

What the researchers found upon studying the mice was that during withdrawal, the males' genes just clear up while the females experienced cell death. This suggests that females are literally more susceptible to brain damage from alcohol.

They also found that during consumption, testosterone rises in females and drops in males. Scientists are now trying to see whether testosterone may play a part in alcohol damage immunity. They aren't ruling out the possibility that the males just experience cell death at a later date though.

Ironically, last October a study on rats revealed that alcohol improves memory.