
Cognition
What Causes Alcohol-Induced Blackouts?
In search of answers, a neurobiologist looks to rodents
Charles F. Zorumski is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis. Among other things, he investigates how alcohol damages the brain and which substances protect the nerve cells from the drug.
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