A lot of us have had that one night where we had too much to drink and it could have marked the end to our drinking career all together because of the ensuing anxiety. This is a common symptom of a hangover alongside the headaches and nausea.

To explain to us why anxiety is a common symptom of a hangover we had Dr Blair Aitken, a Post doctoral research fellow in Psychopharmacology out of the brain science and mental health department of Swinburne University of Technology join us on the show.