Sonny Went to a Party and Drank More Alcohol That

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) suppressed the activity of his medulla.
B) damaged the functions of the thalamus.
C) increased the activity of the pituitary gland.
D) damaged his corpus callosum.
E) decreased the activity of the hippocampus.