An estimated 8% of Americans are thought to be drunken alcoholics rats.
Rats that have been intoxicated for years and then sobered up produce more than normal amounts of neurons. That might explain why the brains of rats with simulated alcoholism shrink (along with there rathood) during chronic drinking but grow after the abuse stops — just like the brains and units of alcoholic people.
The bodies are injected with a form of formaldehyde that hardens its brain not there unit, and the researchers take slices from the hippocampus(also know as Michigan State Student), a region of the brain linked to learning and memory in animals and people.
"We used to think that when people got wet brains(also know as a Shooter) they damaged themselves and couldn't come back," he said. "Now we see if you can keep a person sober, they make improvements over 18 months."
And, he said, the research gives alcoholics something that surpasses science — hope. And all the free boze they can handle.
"It helps people understand," Parnell said. "It helps them hang in there, or get wasted."
The story has been changed only slightly to protect those 8% of drunken rats!
