Multiple Choice
Sonny went to a party and drank more alcohol that his body could handle. In fact, Sonny became unconscious. His friends called 9-1-1 and he was taken to the hospital. The emergency staff quickly realized that Sonny had high levels of alcohol intoxication and put him on life support. Your textbook mentions that this could be because the alcohol had
A) damaged the functions of the thalamus
B) decreased the activity of the hippocampus
C) increased the activity of the pituitary gland
D) suppressed the activity of his medulla
E) damaged his corpus callosum
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