When people drink to the point that they don’t remember things, it isn’t that they don’t remember those things the next day, but that the excessive alcohol consumption actually interferes with the ability of their brain to form new long-term memories (i.e. from recording, in a manner of speaking, the events in the first place).
May 21, 2022
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When people drink to the point that they don’t remember things, it isn’t that they don’t remember those things the next day, but that the excessive alcohol consumption actually interferes with the ability of their brain to form new long-term memories (i.e. from recording, in a manner of speaking, the events in the first place).
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