Ask your neurologist how this knowledge will help your recovery.
The blogger covering it here:
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2013/01/drunk-rats-could-overturn-neurological.html
The last section, I love it.
Of course, this is in mice - and it might not translate to humans... we
need to find out, and I for one am keen to apply for a grant. Here's my
draft:
Participants: 8 healthy-livered neuroscientists.
Materials: 1 MRI scanner, 1 crate Jack Daniels.
Methods: Subjects will
confer to pick a Designated Operator, who will remain sober. If no
volunteers for this role are forthcoming, selection will be randomized
by Bottle Spinning. All other participants will consume Jack Daniels ad libitum,
and take turns being scanned. Once all Jack Daniels is depleted,
participants will continue to be scanned until fully sobered up (defined
as when they can successfully spell "amygdalohippocampal").
Instructions to Participants: i) what happens in the magnet, stays in the magnet. ii) If you 'dirty' the scanner, you clean it up. iii) Bottle caps are not MRI safe!
The original paper here:
A mechanism of rapidly reversible cerebral ventricular enlargement independent of tissue atrophy
This is good. My physiatrist has actually okayed a couple glasses of wine w dinner as long as I'm not having the wine because I'm depressed.
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