On the subject of drinking ....

Thursday, 22nd April, 2010.

Thinking back to the induction week in which we had a talk about drinking - whilst it's not a good idea to mix drinking with academic work, apparantly, alcohol also affects memory more generally. This explains the reason that we remember things in more detail before drinking rather than after, and it is also the reason that drunks forget the embarassing things that they do. Researchers at the University of Sussex claim that alcohol influences the brain's ability to form memories. Theodora Duka said that this bias towards positive memories made them more likely to got out and get drunk again as they could only remember the good things which happened to them.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/2711391/Why-drunks-forget-the-embarrassing-things-they-do.html Not a form of being bad I'd recommend!