Why do some of our neurons die when we get drunk?

Question

What biochemical processes take place?

Answer 1

Secondly, ethanol increases the effects of GABA, which is an inhibitory neurotransmitter - so again, it slows down your brain.

Ethanol is processed by the liver, and the liver doesn't like to do that. So ethanol in higher doses damages the liver - and you get things like cirrhosis of the liver (scarring from dead cells) and liver failure if you drink a lot.

Ethanol is also a diuretic, which means it makes you pee. It also dehydrates you - and that dehydration means your blood is thicker, which is tough on those blood vessels in your forehead which run right near nerves in your face. The dehydration, the headaches, the aftereffects of the alcohol in your stomach - all this combines to make a hangover.

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Answer 2

Altered cell membrane fluidity and structural alterations of the neurone constituents have been observed including single strand breaks in DNA.