Use Alcohol to boost memory! 

A new study from University of Exeter in Britain has claimed that use of alcohol may improve memory and help people remeber more numvber of things.Read how:

According to research:

• The researchers are, however, keen to stress that this limited positive effect should be considered
• alongside the well-established negative effects of excessive alcohol on memory and mental and physical health.
• Although the cause of this effect is not yet known, the researchers explained that alcohol blocks
• the learning of new information and, therefore, the brain has more resources available
• to lay down other recently learned information into long-term memory.
• “The theory is that the hippo-campus brain area is really important in memory
• This switches to ‘consolidating’ memories, transferring from short into longer-term memory,” said Celia Morgan, Professor at University of Exeter.

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• For the study, 88 social drinkers (31 males and 57 females, aged 18-53) were given a word-learning task.
• Participants were then split in two groups at random and told either to drink as much as they liked or not to drink at all.
• The next day, they all did the same task again and those who had drunk alcohol remembered more of what they had learned.
• “Our research not only showed that those who drank alcohol did better when repeating the word-learning task,
• but that this effect was stronger among those who drank more,” Morgan said.
• In a second task, the participants were asked to look at images on a screen.
• This task was completed once after the drinkers had drunk alcohol and again the following day, and the results did not reveal significant differences in memory performance post-drinking.

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