Activity was significantly higher in parts of the prefrontal and parietal cortex of the drinkers during both learning and testing phases, probably reflecting increased effort to memorize and recall.

-They need to work harder to retain the same information since drinking harms their memory.

-The hippocampus in the drinkers was underactive, which, in this case, the scientists interpret as exhibiting their poorer recall memory.

Sixth Study

Alecia Dager, now a psychiatry researcher at Yale University, tested verbal working memory the ability to retain verbal information for short periods in 24 nondrinking and heavy-drinking teens.

         -The drinkers remembered 78%

         of the words given earlier to 

         them to memorize, compared 

         with 85% in the nondrinkers

Results: