Alcohol Doesn’t Drown Sorrow
By admin • Mar 1st, 2008 • Category: Humans
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Numerous people believe that alcohol can help people drown their sorrows.
However, a Japanese study found that drinking alcohol only makes bad memories hang around.
After conducting tests on rats, researchers at the University of Tokyo concluded that ethanol - an intoxicating agent in alcohol - locks memories in place.
Rodents were divided into two groups and given shocks so that they become fearful; and then injected with either ethanol or saline.
The researchers found that the rats with alcohol in their blood froze up for longer, about two weeks, compared to rodents that did not receive injections containing ethanol.
The good news is that the researchers have a solution to get rid of bad memories - overwrite the negative memory with a positive memory at an early stage.
The study was published in the US academic journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
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