Introduction to CNS Pharmacology Gökşen Öz M.D. Ph.D.

Question 1

most important aspect of physiology that defines the difference between humans and other species.

Answer 1

Brain function

Question 2

Centrally acting drugs are of special significance to humankind

Answer 2

 major therapeutic importance,

 non-medical reasons (e.g. alcohol, tea and coffee, nicotine, cannabis, MDMA [ecstasy] opioids, cocaine, amphetamines).

Question 3

CNS is protected by a

Answer 3

blood brain barrier

Question 4

relationship between the behaviour of individual cells and that of the organ as a whole in CNS is

Answer 4

less direct than in other organ