“…Low doses of alcohol have been shown to promote stem cell expansion, while higher concentrations slow proliferation [95,96,97,98,99]. Several cell culture studies indicate that alcohol exposure inhibits neurogenesis [100], while hastening neuronal differentiation [100,101]. During the neurogenic period, alcohol causes a decrease in a variety of neuronal populations including hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells [102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111], cerebellar Purkinje cells [112,113,114,115], and cerebral cortical neurons [116,117].…”