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Alcohol's Memory Impairment Not Due to 'Killing Brain Cells'
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 09, 2011 07:13am |
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| News Date | Thursday, July 7, 2011 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A night of drinking and dancing can end in some fuzzy or missing memories of the evening, and researchers have long wondered why. Popular opinion blames the killing of brain cells, but new research finds that isn't true.
Very high alcohol levels can cause unconsciousness, by shutting down the parts of your brain that control your breathing. The new research looked at less serious but still heavy drinking and those frustrating blank spots in the memory that result.
"Alcohol isn’t damaging the cells in any way that we can detect," said study researcher Charles Zorumski, of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "As a matter of fact, even at the high levels we used here, we don’t see any changes in how the brain cells communicate." |
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