what happens when we blackout from drinking too much?
In: 1
Broadly speaking, Alcohol’s mechanism of action works by facilitating the action of a “calming”, activity reducing neurotransmitter called GABA. GABA generally reduces of the amount of electrical activity in a particular neuron/neural pathway, or even generalized region of the brain.
As you become more intoxicated with alcohol, GABA activity increasingly shuts down neural activity in your brain. This happens in stages. You loose your inhibitions of your thoughts and words, you begin to loose tight control of your muscles (i.e. you slip and stagger, knock things over). Memory loss happens when there is a high blood alcohol content, enough that the neurological processes that encode memory in the relevant brain structures are interrupted, and thus you don’t remember.
Latest Answers