Alcohol-Related Blackouts
Nifty infographic based on what we know about how blackouts happen. Most importantly - EAT and DRINK SLOWLY
Article about blackouts from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Court documents from The People vs. Leger (pronounced lay-ZHAY)
Actual footage of Viking Cat Lady high kicking (she stored this memory).
Click HERE to listen to our episode on amnesia, to learn more about how memories are stored.
EP. 19
Alcohol Blackouts: What Really Happens to Your Memory?
You can be walking, talking, texting, and making terrible decisions, all while your brain has quietly stopped recording the night. In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of alcohol-related blackouts, the difference between fragmentary brownouts and complete en bloc blackouts, and how alcohol disrupts memory formation. Then we take it somewhere much darker, with a real murder case in which the killer claimed to have been in an alcohol blackout, raising a disturbing question: what happens when someone commits the unthinkable and genuinely can't remember doing it?
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