Scientists have found evidence that alcohol not only prevents you from forgetting bad memories but makes them stronger – by strengthening nerve cells connected to the brain’s fear response center.
Replacing this form of self-medication with short-term drug therapy and behavioral therapy is the only way to weaken – or even rewrite – bad memories.
But Dr Norman Haughey, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University, warns the longer you spend drowning your memories with liquor, the harder it will be to overwrite traumatic experiences.
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Read the full article at the Daily Mail on http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4110856/Why-NEVER-drink-forget-Alcohol-makes-bad-memories-stronger.html
