Binge as well as social drinking can lead to blackouts

A UCLA student woke up at 6 a.m. after a long night of drinking to discover drawings all over his body. Puzzled, he made it to his 9 a.m. class with artwork still on him and no recollection of how it had gotten there.
“I was at a party, and everyone was drinking. It was like a competition,” said the student, who wishes to remain anonymous.
“The last thing I remember is dancing on top of a table.”

Bilingualism broadens brainpower

Neurobiologists from across the country have discovered that students who are fluent in at least two languages are better at multitasking and less likely to face an early onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

The findings were presented at a conference in Washington, D.C., last month.

“A lot of brain imaging scans have shown that being bilingual has changed the structure of the brain,” said Lauren Mason Carris, a doctoral candidate in applied linguistics at UCLA.