This Is Why We're Such A Mess When We're Drunk, According To Science

Turns out the drunk brain is a bitch.

For starters, we need to explain a few things about what makes the drunk brain so different than the sober brain...

Strang told us to imagine the brain "like a Windows computer with a really powerful RAM processor and lots of memory." As the alcohol dose rises, he explained, the RAM goes down. "We have multiple, multiple circuits that are designed evolutionarily to do different things," he told us. When you're drunk, you stop using all those moving parts and you become "what we call myopic," says Strang.

So basically, we're like a shitty computer when we're drunk.

NBC

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