Lecture 3

Question 1

Effect on tasks

Answer 1

A lot of cocaine is good for easy tasks, a little bit of cocaine is good for complex tasks

Question 2

Effects of paranoia

Answer 2

More paranoid on chronic use, inability to recognize reality, hallucinate, limited patterns of thought

Question 3

What is the behavioral pathology of psychostimulants?

Answer 3

Parkinson’s like symptoms, akathisia, akinesia, and tremonrs

Question 4

Akathisia

Answer 4

Urge to be in movement

Question 5

Akinesia

Answer 5

Lack of movement

Question 6

Dyskinetic Movements

Answer 6

Abnormal, involuntary movements

Question 7

Skin Picking

Answer 7

Thinking there are bugs under your skin and picking away at them

Question 8

Physical Effects of Psychostimulant

Answer 8

Increased heart rate, overdose can cause heart attack, increased blood pressure, increased body temperature, dilated bronchi

Question 9

Psychostimulant cycle of addiction

Answer 9

Start with euphoric feelings, withdrawal is very dysphoric so take more to be euphoric, after a while instead of dysphoria you experience paranoia and psychosis (feeling REALLY bad now isntead of just bad)

Question 10

Withdrawal (1-2 days) symptoms

Answer 10

Dysphoria, lethargy and sleepiness, increased irritability and anxiety, and suicidal tendencies

Question 11

Dysphoria (7-10 days) symptoms

Answer 11

Depression, anxiety and cravings (situational dependence)

Question 12

Treatment

Answer 12

First detox, then use cocaine group therapy, 85% relapse after a year, and 75% treated relapse after a year