Haven't they ever herd of the song 'Red Red Wine' by UB-40? ;) via Daily Mail UK: Just one glass of wine could be enough for you to dismiss your bad memories and focus only on the good times, a new study suggests. Researchers say that alcohol 'hijacks' the pathway that forms memory on a fundamental, molecular level. It affects a gene involved with encoding whether a memory is pleasing or unpleasant and changes a protein the gene makes, which in turn makes you form 'craving memories'. One drink only changes the pathway for an hour, but three can change the pathway for 24 hours - which could explain why we forget being sick or stumbling home. The team, led by Brown University in Rhode Island, says its findings may help explain why recovering alcoholics find it hard to stay on the wagon and that this could lead to forms of treatment that help decrease how long the craving memories last, or how intense they are. Senior author Dr Karla Kaun, an assistant professor of neuroscience at Brown