Why a Drunk Brain Thinks it Can Drive

Guest: Ksenija Marinkovic, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Associate Professor of Radiology, and the Director of the Spatio-Temporal Brain Imaging Laboratory at San Diego State University Crashes caused by drunk driving kill more than 10,000 people a year in the United States. Why do so many people who’ve been drinking still get behind the wheel and think they’re fine to drive? Neuroscientists at San Diego State University may have found the answer.