Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Auckland have found what some may refer to as the Perfect Collegiate Rational. Professors Matthew Durning and Margaret Kalev-Zylinska found that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol - amounts equivalent to three drinks per day for a person - improved the memories of laboratory rats.
Now before you run out to the party store to buy a half-barrel, consider this:
Doses of alcohol moderately improved the animals’ ability to remember a negative event. The research also suggests that high levels of alcohol can reinforce bad memories. People who drink to forget bad memories may actually be doing the opposite by reinforcing the neural circuits that control negative emotional memory.
Matthew Durning
Professor of Genetics
OSU
Professor of Genetics
OSU
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