“How alcohol, time and trying to forget trauma can change what we remember” September 27, 2018 By Brooke Mansfield “The part of the brain that is doing most of the heavy lifting to encode new memory is called the hippocampus,” said Scott Swartzwelder, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University. “It’s a structure that happens to be very, very sensitive to alcohol.” Filed Under: Categories: News More from Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies McElligott recognized for pioneering research into the neuroscience of addiction Dr. Cassandra Modrak Honored with Outstanding Poster Award UNC Neurology’s Shih Developing Improved, Silent MRI for Better Brain Imaging
