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So one of the first things that happens is that there's a slight, at least after the first drink or second drink, there's a slight suppression in the activity of neurons in the prefrontal cortex. This is an area of your neocortex that's involved in thinking and planning and, perhaps above all, in suppression of impulsive behavior.
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All of this is because these areas of the prefrontal cortex normally are providing what's called top-down inhibition. They are releasing a neurotransmitter called GABA onto various parts of the brain that are involved in impulsive motor behavior and thought patterns, and as you shut down the prefrontal cortex, that GABAergic suppression of impulses starts to be released, so people will say things that they want to say without so much forethought about what they're saying, or they might do things that they want to do without really thinking it through quite as much or they might not even remember thinking it through at all, or experience, I should say, thinking it through at all.