While it is known that long-term anabolic steroid use can shrink your testicles, many people don’t know about another newly-discovered side effect of this drug: memory loss. McLean Hospital Research Psychiatrist Harrison Pope, MD, and Harvard Medical School researchers conducted a study on forty-four individuals, ranging from the ages of 29 to 55, with thirty-three of them having used steroids for an average of seven years.  The researchers instructed all of the participants to complete five cognitive tests that measured different functions of the brain, comprised of reaction time, memory for shapes and locations of objects, ability to maintain attention, memory for lists of words, and speed of information processing Pope explained, “We have seen a significant rise in AAS use within the general population over the last 20 years, and are … Read entire article »