Therefore we continue to get drunk, wherever hangover we are – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Most of us have been there. It’s Sunday, lying in the fetal position and kaldsvetter while filling anguish tearing body. It feels like your head is about to fall off, and you promise yourself that you “should never drink again!”. Until this weekend, is there again, and you go on a new blow. Why do we learn never?

It has a new study, first featured on Forskning.no, now found the answer.

– We see that those who go often drunk, when they are sober, adjust their behavior less when the negative consequences than those who drink less, says PhD student Ragnhild Bo of Psychology Institute at the University of Oslo Dagbladet.

Have weekend drinking binges become a firm tradition, chances are other words are you going to forget how bad “the day after” was, and it carries out again.

– Exposing for neurotoxin

In the study, researchers examined 121 students of both sexes, between 18 and 25 years. The students were tested on, was their ability to change, adaptation and improvement. And the answer is clear – you drink large amounts of alcohol frequently, these abilities probably weakened.

– Wakes for example Sunday with cold sweats and palpitations, this will not get as big an impact in drinkers and often. Front seats to “never drink again” slips when Friday comes again, says Bo.

And it is not just a harmless shell bank you risk causing yourself. Repeated binge drinking with high alcohol intake can damage the development of the frontal lobes of the brain.

– At the beginning of the Twenties, when most of us partying most, is not pan lobes of the brain fully developed, and if you then expose these neurotoxin, as alcohol is, so is not that good she said.

The most harmful phase

The part that is most harmful to the brain, weaning phase.

– This is where the brain will try to recreate the natural balance after being fed nerve poison. These processes in the brain can be toxic and cause the brain cells are damaged or die. So when the weekend comes, I would recommend to slow down the pace and perhaps substitute one drink out of a glass of water or a non-alcoholic beer, says Bo.

Or spread alcohol consumption slightly outward.

– Smoother drinking is less harmful because avoids the high blood alcohol peaks. Say that you are drinking ten alcoholic drinks during the week – if you spread these to one-two a day instead of taking all on one night, it goes without saying that you get a lower blood alcohol. And you expose yourself too greater risk when you are very full, because you become more indiscriminately friendly and less risky.

– However, if one has already been “caught” in this vicious spiral of binge and take the same bad choices over and over again, all hope when really there?

– No, the brain has a good ability to reset itself, so if he chooses not to drink, so there will probably be able to get the brain back to normal function, says Bo and laughs.