Quoted: Joel Gelernter

Yale School of Medicine

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“These results, which add to our understanding of the relationship between alcohol and dementia, have clinical implications. There was a time when medical knowledge seemed to support that light drinking would be beneficial to brain health, and this work adds to the evidence that this is not correct.”

—Yale psychiatry professor Joel Gelernter ’79, in a news release about a study suggesting that any amount of alcohol consumption may increase one’s risk of dementia. Gelernter was senior author of the study, which also included researchers from Oxford and Cambridge. It was published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.