Why does drinking break fragments?

Question 1: What's with the drunk fragments? A hangover is a state of being drunk the next day. Some people feel headache, some people feel tired, and some people forget what they did and said last night. This is not the trilogy of the classic American comedy movie Stay Drunk. Although the three buddies in the play really forgot what happened last night after they got drunk, it was because they were drunk and took drugs. Some time ago, a young man from Manchester, England, got drunk and went to Paris to see the Eiffel Tower. I woke up the next day and found myself in Bali, with a bad brain. He couldn't figure out how he got under the Eiffel Tower.

Of course, there are many people who forget things after drinking in real life. When doing business negotiations, my favorite thing is to sign on the wine table. Everyone is happy to drink. Once I signed it, I woke up the next day and forgot what I did last night, but the business was done and it was too late to regret it. So what is the connection between alcohol and our memory? Why do some people forget after a hangover?

How does alcohol affect memory?

To know the influence of alcohol on memory, we must first find out how our memory is produced, which is divided into several stages. In fact, as early as 1968, American contemporary psychologists Atkinson and Shiffrin put forward a model to study memory, and later, researchers improved their model on this basis. Finally, although there are still many problems to be solved in the study of memory at present, it is generally believed that memory can be divided into three main stages: one is sensory memory stage, the other is short-term memory stage and the third is long-term memory stage. The generation of sensory memory mainly depends on the input of sensory signals, including vision, hearing and touch. After that, sensory memory produces short-term memory through analysis and brain coding. Then the brain converts short-term memory into long-term memory through effective coding. At the same time, the big brain will constantly relive short-term memory, and the formation of new short-term memory also needs to mobilize the long-term memory of the past.

Figure: Three stages of memory formation

In their research, Atkinson and Shifrin found that the sensory memory of drunken people is not affected, and the formation of short-term memory is basically normal, but problems often occur when short-term memory is transformed into long-term memory. In other words, the new brother who got drunk last night may not know him the next day. Researchers call this phenomenon "fainting", which is what we call "fragmentation".

As for the mechanism through which alcohol affects the transformation from short-term memory to long-term memory, it has not been explained clearly yet. But what is certain is that the key part of transforming short-term memory into long-term memory is the hippocampus of the brain. This is where alcohol comes into play. In addition, the information transmission between brain nerve cells depends on GABA- aminobutyric acid, 5- hydroxytryptamine acid, glutamic acid and acetylcholine. It is not clear how alcohol affects the information transmission of these nerve cells. However, the current research can still explain some "facts" of drinking.

Question 2: What is the reason for drinking scraps? I drank too much, and I can't remember exactly what happened while drinking. This situation is basically caused by drinking too much, and the brain is in a state of paralysis. Although I do things consciously, my memory will become weak due to alcohol anesthesia, so I can't remember what I did after drinking.

Question 3: What happened to the broken tablets? Because alcohol is crazy.

Question 4: Why does excessive drinking lead to excessive alcohol intake, paralysis of the nervous system, and influence the memory of the brain, so we will forget some scenes at that time.

Question 5: Why do you break short pieces when drinking? You can drink as much as you want. We summarized some common drinking patterns: 1. We regard drinking as the most important or very important thing in life, occupying a central position in our hearts and never forgetting it. 2. Compared with the initial drinking, the amount of drinking increased gradually. 3. the speed of drinking is getting faster and faster. 4. Often drink secretly alone or behind your family's back. 5. Take wine as medicine to relieve emotional distress. 6. Possession of alcohol. 7. Often forget things after drinking. 8. Unplanned drinking often leads to accidents after drinking. 9. Drinking in the morning, commonly known as "open-eyed wine", some people even drink after waking up at night. 10. Drink before going to bed. 1 1. Like to drink on an empty stomach, and seldom eat vegetables when drinking. 12. Choose the brand of wine if possible. 13. Because drinking and quarreling with family members affect family harmony, or drinking affects work. 14. I once gave up drinking, but it didn't take long for my old illness to recur and get out of hand. Generally speaking, if a person's drinking behavior has more than three manifestations, it is highly suspected that it is alcohol dependence. It is often seen that some alcohol addicts have brought many adverse effects on their health, family harmony and work because of drinking, and even have some illegal behaviors after drinking. Although they feel guilty and regret for these consequences, they still can't completely stop drinking, stop drinking and drink again and again. Do they have no ambition and perseverance? No, this is because alcohol dependence is a disease, and it is a worsening disease. This disease, like diabetes and hypertension, cannot be completely eradicated. But it can be controlled. The reason for drinking again is related to the sensitivity of the body to alcohol and the psychological impulse to drink. No matter what bad consequences will be brought about by drinking again, you can't overcome it by your own perseverance. Like other diseases, there will be some characteristic clinical manifestations. Once you become dependent on alcohol, suddenly stop drinking or suddenly reduce the amount of alcohol you drink, there will be many physical discomfort symptoms, which is called alcohol withdrawal syndrome. For convenience, some people divide alcohol withdrawal syndrome into three stages according to time and severity: the first stage of alcohol withdrawal syndrome: it usually appears 6 ~ 12 hours after drinking, showing tremors in both hands. In severe cases, it can accumulate the whole upper limb or even the trunk. In severe cases, besides common symptoms such as anorexia, insomnia and irritability, tongue trembling may also occur. The second stage of alcohol withdrawal syndrome: it occurs 24 ~ 72 hours after alcohol withdrawal. In addition to the above symptoms, auditory hallucinations often occur, and the content is mostly abuse or persecution, which can lead to impulsive behavior and less excitement. Three-stage alcohol withdrawal syndrome: delirium tremens, which often occurs 72 hours after the last drinking. At this time, the patient is unconscious, has obvious tremor, walks unsteadily, and may have various vivid hallucinations, such as seeing various small animals, and the patient shows nervousness, anxiety and fear. The memory of patients is obviously impaired, and some patients may have epileptic convulsions. Even in developed countries, once delirium tremens occurs, the total mortality rate of treated patients can still reach 10% ~ 15%, and even higher for untreated patients. Therefore, it is impossible for long-term drinkers to suddenly stop drinking. If you highly suspect alcohol dependence, you should go to a specialized hospital for treatment as soon as possible. People who form alcohol dependence can't control their drinking behavior or their drinking quantity, so can they still drink normally after a period of abstinence? As far as we know, no one has ever been able to drink "normally", or just stopped drinking for months or years in social situations. Once a person develops from binge drinking to uncontrolled and desperate binge drinking, there is no turning back. Alcoholics don't deliberately drink to cause trouble, but excessive drinking is bound to cause trouble. Many people who depend on alcohol think that it is okay to drink a few cans of beer or a few glasses of light wine after a period of abstinence. Not many people get drunk after drinking a bottle or two of beer. So I mistakenly thought that I could quit by drinking only two or three bottles of beer every day. Occasionally, they can do it in a few days or weeks. Then it will be concluded that even drinking will be "comfortable". However, they will drink more and more beer or wine at a time, and before long, they will drink as much as before. Another wrong idea is to replace high alcohol with low alcohol. For alcoholics, wine is wine. No matter whether it is martini, whisky and soda water, champagne or a small glass of beer, no matter what wine you drink, it will lead to excessive drinking and repeated drinking. Therefore, for alcohol addicts, during abstinence ... >; & gt

Question 6: Why do people who drink a lot but don't break their membranes recently? It means they are really drunk.

Question 7: How to recover the fragments after drinking? The English name is "Blackout", which vividly describes the situation that nothing is known when the eyes are dark. Where are all our drunken memories? Atkinson-Shiffrin memory mode points out that human memory can be divided into sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Of these three kinds of memories, long-term memory is the most reliable and the most difficult to forget. Short-term memory is easy to forget if it is not repeated.

Suppose our brain is a computer, then one of the organs called "hippocampus" is similar to the internal memory of the computer. Any short-term memory will be stored in the hippocampus. The effect of alcohol will seriously affect the function of hippocampus. Drinking is actually like shorting the memory of a computer. With the increase of alcohol intake, the function of hippocampus will gradually decline. Excessive drinking, especially rapid intake in a short time, may lead to partial or complete amnesia in a short time. Your brain has become a defective product that can only read memory files and can neither download nor Ctrl C and Ctrl V. This is what we often call fragmentation.

Fortunately, the impact of alcohol on the brain does not have a great impact on the long-term memory that has been established, such as home address and telephone number, which are used every day. So, you don't have to worry about forgetting your name after drinking black. You are still receiving information, you are not paralyzed, you have done nothing wrong, but you have not formed new memories.

So what memories will we forget in the clip? With the expansion of the drinking population, the phenomenon of broken pieces on the wine table is becoming more and more common. Statistics show that in the fragmentation period, simple conversations, distance movements and even sex may become forgotten memories. Therefore, it is not impossible for drunken promiscuity to become such a happy soap opera plot in real life.

An article entitled "Being drunk is not an excuse to avoid responsibility" quoted a new research report in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), pointing out that "I am drunk" is not necessarily an excuse not to submit a responsible answer. People who are carried away by alcohol are not too worried about their behavior, and often even don't care. Experiments show that under the condition of limiting the concentration of drunk driving, drunken people and sober people have the same ability to judge right and wrong and feel guilty.

However, in fact, what we call drunkenness is much higher than drunk driving. In the case of debris, the human body has stumbled and lost consciousness. Does it really have the so-called values and views of right and wrong of the subject?

Anyway, there is a common understanding that "I am drunk" is by no means an excuse for your behavior. Whether it is a little tipsy or a broken membrane, from the premise of drinking itself, you have made a wrong start, and everything after that naturally needs to be borne by yourself.

Question 8: Will it really break the membrane after getting drunk? Drinking too much will really break the membrane. I didn't think it would happen before, but I broke the membrane once before I realized it would break. But you have to realize that how much you drink is a broken membrane. Drinking too much is not the same as passing out. Only when you pass out can you break the membrane.

Question 9: What if you drink more than you can? Then you will lose control. At this time, your brain is depressed, so you don't know what you said or some actions and words and deeds afterwards. It hurts. In your case, my advice is that drinking is ok, but be clear about how much you drink, and don't drink too much, which is easy to cause danger.

Question 10: Why do you drink too much after drinking minced meat?

Do you usually like it?

What is this,

Break a piece as soon as you drink it.

Is it normal?

I'm used to it. I'm addicted.