Over the 12-day period, the sensors detected a total of 486 days of alcohol use, and students together reported 147 ...

Blackouts after a wild night out are blamed on high alcohol consumption, but any temporary memory loss also depends on how ...

Now your blood alcohol content hits around 0.3%, and your hippocampus goes dark. And full amnesia sets in. This is called an en bloc blackout. And once you wake up, that entire night could be blank.

A blackout. The amnesia caused by excessive alcohol consumption has become a topic of discussion in the wake of sexual assault allegations against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Alcohol enhances the inhibitory actions of the neurotransmitter GABA leading to impaired judgement. With frontal lobes ...

It was an alcohol-induced blackout, and like all parties at MIT, there’s an ingenious solution to [Dhairya]’s problem. [Dhairya] came up with an alcohol-aware ice cube made of a coin cell ...

A well-rested brain is more resilient to the effects of alcohol. However, if you’re already sleep-deprived, your brain is much more susceptible to blackouts and memory gaps. Blackouts occur when ...

Of course I didn’t. But I left the clinic with the notion that alcohol was an escalating madness, and the blackout issue was the juncture separating two kinds of drinking. One kind was a comet ...