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How alcohol affects your brain and behavior. Part IV — Withdrawal

A few links to get you started before we dive in: Part I Part II Part III This series is wrapping up. We’ve talked about how alcohol gets in your body, what it does there, and how it gets out. Sadly, alcohol doesn’t always pick up after itself. It leaves a mess and moves on [...]

How alcohol affects your brain and behavior. Part III — Tolerance

In the past, we’ve talked about how alcohol gets in your system, how your body breaks it down, and what a few drinks will do to different parts of your brain. Now, let’s talk about tolerance. Tolerance is when the effect of a substance decreases when compared to previous usage. The effect of one beer [...]

How alcohol affects your brain and behavior. Part II

Last episode, we talked about how how alcohol gets into your system, and how your body tries to break alcohol down and get it out of your system. There’s a bit more to it, of course. Let’s dive in to what alcohol does in between ingestion and metabolism, and the crazy things you tend to [...]

How alcohol affects your brain and behavior. Part I

Back in the day, a whopping 5 years ago or so, I was a Psychology major. Yes, now I make beer and websites, but once upon a time, I was a mind reader. Part of our mind reading training was a background in neuroscience. I went a bit further than the required “intro” course (trust [...]