Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Duh Science

New study shows alcohol impacts vision by 30 per cent
In findings published in the journal Perception, Kevin Johnston and Brian Timney from the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and the Faculty of Social Science have shown alcohol greatly affects the ability to adjust vision for brightness and contrast, which may be increasingly problematic when driving at twilight, as the suns dips below the horizon.
"We obviously know alcohol impairs our decision making and motor skills but until now, we did not know how alcohol affects our vision," said Johnston, a research scientist at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology's Laboratory for Neural Circuits and Behaviour. "What we have done now, using century-old methods, is find out exactly how much vision is impaired after drinking alcohol."
I'm shocked, shocked to find blurry vision going on in here...

Your "alcoholism experts" at work.

oops, forgot to mention blurry vision is also a symptom of hyperinsulinemia...  which is also one of the results of metabolizing alcohol...