Ch. 2 Flashcards
The central nervous system is divided into three parts
The central – spinal cord and the brain. Secondly, The somatic – organ systems. I asked but not least autonomic ~related to reflexes. The somatic and autonomic are considered both peripheral.
How do psychoactive drugs differ from other drugs?
Because they can cross the blood brain barrier.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The reasoning part of our brain. So that we do not make a logical decisions. It controls to an extent. It is beyond the three main things people think – animals such as food water and sex
How do drugs get into the body?
In hailed, snorted, injected,taking is a pill
What is the fastest type of drug method?
It is inhaling not injecting because our brain and lungs get your brain instead of going through all the circulation of the body
Why is the liver important?
When someone swallows from stomach it goes to the liver and it is a filter to change the drug to go into your body.
However alcohol goes to liver and gets converted so there is less available therefore people Go through other ways because if it does not go through the liver you will get a higher high
What are memory bumps in relevance to memories in a nerve
When people use substances though start to see new memories be built on these nerves based around those substances.
What are the two general sections of the brain?
The prefrontal cortex. This is the decision-maker, logic, controls your impulses. Secondly the old part of your brain is the pleasure the sex the survival
What is the amygdala and what does it do
It is the emotional consideration
Neurotransmitters
These are essential building blocks for the drugs when they are released from the cell they flow and hit the receptor and once that is active you’ll see chemical reactions that can cause an impulse to happen in the next nerve
Memory and amygdala
To try to create memories is already happening the sound of the voice and action. Even if you laugh it enables the amygdala to remember it more and if he hates you and sad way you remember it even more
The basic affects of neurotransmitters
Chart of psychoactive drug – near a transmitter relationships are found in the book reference the book
Tolerance
The development of tolerance overtime comes to mean that it can’t be postponed such as going to jail but when you get out of jail that’s tolerance still exists and overdosing comes to occur because they did not feel the high yet
Opiate affects versus withdrawal symptoms
Reference such chart on chapter 1 withdrawal effects are often the opposite of the drugs direct effects
Mouse and alcohol analogy
Do you recall? Hater Alcagol mouse and love are all Alcagol mouse returning to the same outcome
