The best evidence was shown by post mortems of the adolescent monkeys that drank binge which proved that drinking heavily at a young age could damage the brain prominently.

The damage would first hit those stem cells that were to become neurons that were responsible for awareness of space and significantly memory.

The human brains and the monkey brains seem to develop in the same way hence reporting similar damages that would happen to teenagers who drink heavily.

The study was led by Chaitra Mandyan who said “ Binge alcohol consumption in adolescents is increasing, and studies in animal models show that adolescence is a period of high vulnerability to brain insults."

There was a rapid decline in the actively dividing cells that would have the same affect on human brains too, she said.

It was seen that the binge drinking monkeys had stem cells that fell by almost 50 to 90% in their hippocampus when compared with the non binge drinking monkeys. Mandyan said that they saw a very distinct decrease in the number of the vital cells that were very essential for the brain’s normal functioning. "What is important for the public to know is that this type of drinking can kill off stem cells.” she added.

She mentioned that this damage could result in long term damage and might account up to one of the reasons as to why teens who binge develop dependence on alcohol when they become adults.