For people who are often drunk, amnesia after drinking is a common phenomenon, commonly known as "fragmentation".
This is a moment of complete amnesia after drinking, and the length of time varies from person to person. Generally speaking, people who have "broken pieces" behave normally.
But for sober people, the other party said that they did not remember what they did, which is really helpless...
Why do you drink "broken pieces"?
Alcohol is an anesthetic that stimulates the brain. It turns off the brain's inhibitory function first, so the slightly drunk person appears more "active"; then, when the brain can't withstand alcohol stimulation, it will take a short break. Drink more, and the brain will have to temporarily enter a state of long rest.
The human body is like a video recorder, under normal circumstances, all the functions of the video recorder are in the state of operation, and everything you hear and see is recorded in the brain, which is our memory function.
After drinking alcohol to a certain extent, after the function of the temporal lobe of the brain that controls the memory is paralyzed by alcohol, the human body becomes a video recorder that only takes pictures and does not record, and your observations and hearings are no longer recorded by the brain for the time being.
Therefore, the emergence of "fragments" is actually memory damage caused by alcohol.
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Alcohol is a fat-soluble substance that allows it to freely penetrate the barrier between the blood and the brain, causing damage to the central nervous system, which can be achieved through multiple neurotransmitter systems.
After just drinking, the drinker's spatial learning and memory ability will decline. And people who drink alcohol for a long time, leading to chronic alcoholism, have a much higher proportion of memory impairment than intellectual disabilities.
The effects of alcohol on the brain are chronic, long-term, recurrent "fragmentation", which is very common in alcohol-dependent patients, and once the brain is damaged, the recovery of memory will be very difficult.
How can we avoid "fragmentation" and the harm it brings?
If you have to drink alcohol, pay attention to the amount of control, and do not drink too fast.
But the best answer is actually not to drink.
As it is, the human body is wonderful
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Yang Kebing
Deputy Chief Physician
Department of Alcohol and Medicine Dependence, Beijing Huilongguan Hospital
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