I lose my memory when I m drunk, why do I know?

What happened that night after getting drunk? Why does alcohol cause memory blurring or amnesia? One popular explanation is that alcohol kills brain cells.

However, the latest research suggests that this is not the case. Severe drunkenness can indeed cause the part of the brain that controls breathing to stop working, leading to coma. The new study looks at why less severe drunkenness creates memory gaps.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine in the United States pointed out in the Journal of Neuroscience on July 6 that you are still receiving information, not paralyzed, not missing anything, but not forming new memories. In rat experiments, researchers found that even though alcohol acted directly on brain cells, it did not cause any damage, but caused the cells to release steroids. Does this hinder the formation of memories?

Long-term enhancement (LTP) is required to form memory, and studies have found that the cells responsible for memory formation in the hippocampus lose their share of other brain cells when alcohol levels are greatly increased. Researchers tested different levels of alcohol and found that only very large amounts of alcohol could cause problems between cells. Alcohol appears to interfere with the receptors of cells, blocking some and activating others, causing cells to release steroids that hinder memory.

When the researchers cut off the formation of steroids with prostate inhibitors, the brains of rats were able to create memories normally, even with extremely high alcohol concentrations. If the effectiveness of prostate inhibitors is confirmed, it is expected that the drug for amnesia will be developed on this basis. Publications:

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No, I guess I can remember a little.

"Amnesia" caused by drinking alcohol is actually a kind of memory damage caused by alcohol, and the principle of action is to act on the central nervous system of the human body through psychoactive substances, resulting in instantaneous confusion of consciousness. However, the probability of this happening varies from person to person.

Some liquors contain, alcohol, caffeine, taurine, guarana. Caffeine, taurine, and guarana extract, among others, can lead to "unsafe addiction." Alcohol containing this ingredient can prolong and increase the amount of alcohol consumed to the point where it exceeds the body's capacity.

Guarana and taurine are both stimulants, and stimulants combined with alcohol can easily lead to drunkenness, vasodilation, cardiovascular problems and even alcoholism.

Drunkenness causes transient amnesia because temporal lobe function is paralyzed or suppressed by alcohol.

The human brain is like a video recorder, and under normal circumstances, all the functions of the video recorder are turned on. That is, the brain has both a framing function and a recording function. Everything that people hear and see is recorded in the brain, which is the memory function.

After drinking alcohol to a certain extent, the function of the temporal lobe (an important part of the brain that controls memory) is paralyzed or inhibited by alcohol.

At this time, the human brain is a video recorder that can only take pictures, not record, and what people see and hear is not recorded by the brain. Different people have different tolerances to alcohol, some people drink a lot of alcohol and will not have "fragments" when they drink a lot of alcohol, but some people have poor tolerance to alcohol, and "fragments" will occur. As the same person's physical fitness continues to change, so does their sensitivity to alcohol.