Alcohol Blackouts: What Really Happens to Your Memory?

You can be walking, talking, texting, and making terrible decisions, all while your brain has quietly stopped recording the night. In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of alcohol-related blackouts, the difference between fragmentary brownouts and complete en bloc blackouts, and how alcohol disrupts memory formation. Then we take it somewhere much darker, with a real murder case in which the killer claimed to have been in an alcohol blackout, raising a disturbing question: what happens when someone commits the unthinkable and genuinely can't remember doing it?