During the festive season and other times of celebration, alcohol often flows freely. But how much is too much? In short, what counts as "binge drinking," and what are the potential health effects?

A new study links repeated binge drinking to persistent brain inflammation that reshapes mood, fear learning, and relapse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people abuse alcohol. South_agency/E+ via Getty Images Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying ...

Research shows that a single drinking binge—roughly four drinks for women or five for men within about two hours—can disrupt the gastrointestinal tract in measurable ways. Even in healthy adults, such ...

This is an important message about binge drinking. Most people who binge drink are trying to cope with stress. Stress is a part of life, however, how we cope with it can make all the difference. If ...

High-intensity drinking, which involves consuming alcohol at levels twice the gender-specific binge drinking thresholds, is gaining attention for its risks. Studies show that people engaging in ...

Today in research: the young are mostly just happy to be working, making "tractor beams" real, binge drinking's cost per drink, and the latest thing to worry about with cell phones. Will binge ...

Health experts are warning about the dangers of high-intensity binge drinking, a more extreme form of binge drinking that occurs in a single sitting, according to Newsweek. While binge drinking is ...