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Abstract: 

In 2003, Mnemosyne Press in Santa Barbara, CA, published an important book that should be on the reading list of all student conduct professionals. The book, called The Alcohol Blackout: Walking, Talking, Unconscious and Lethal, by Donald F. Sweeney, M.D., and Robert A. Liston, promises to answer questions regarding: •How to recognize that a blacked-out person is unconscious and has no idea what he or she is doing; •How to cope with a blacked-out person; •How to protect the blacked-out person and yourself from harm; •How to drink to prevent blackouts; •Why blackouts are a huge, misunderstood, and unrecognized problem for society and the law. Following is a review of the book and its answer to these and other important questions.

Keywords: positron emission tomography (PET); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Hippocampus;

Affiliations:  1: Editor.