Why you shouldn’t even bother trying to remember last night: Drunken blackouts are caused by alcohol switching off brain’s memory function

Alcohol ‘switches’ off brain region that encodes memory – and some are more vulnerable than others
Not necessarily because people drink more

Waking up after a heavy night’s drinking and being fuzzy about what happened is an experience many people have had.

It’s often said that alcohol killing off brain cells is behind the blackouts, but according to a study what’s actually happening is that booze is preventing new memories being recorded in [...]