"How alcohol, time and trying to forget trauma can change what we remember" | Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies

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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.”