Sentences with phrase «memories of alcohol consumption»

The researchers scanned the entire brain and discovered that memories of alcohol consumption — often prompted by external stimuli — caused activation of this protein in specific regions of the frontal cortex, the area of the brain related to memory processing, as well as in the nucleus of the amygdala, which is responsible for emotional memories and involved in the emotional symptoms related to withdrawal.

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Maternal alcohol consumption prior to and during pregnancy significantly affects cognitive functions in offspring, which may be related to changes in cyclin - dependent kinase 5 because it is associated with modulation of synaptic plasticity and impaired learning and memory.

Long - term, but not short - term, alcohol consumption promotes proteasome - mediated degradation of the nuclear histone deacetylases HDAC4 and HDAC5 in the nucleus accumbens, a brain region critical for reward - based memory.

«One of the main causes of relapse in alcoholics are memories linking objects and places connected to alcohol consumption, such as shops, liquor bottles, and of course the smell and taste of alcohol,» said Dr. Segev Barak of Tel Aviv University, who is leading a team studying ways to prevent recidivism in addicts.

However, there was expert evidence that lack of sleep combined with alcohol consumption could result in memory loss.

When people drink to the point that they don't remember things, it isn't that they don't remember those things the next day, but that the excessive alcohol consumption actually interferes with the ability of their brain to form new long - term memories (i.e. from recording, in a manner of speaking, the events in the first place).