Related Brain Regions Which Map To Effects And LTPs

Question 1

Many of the psychological effects of ecstasy are due to its effects within what?

Answer 1

The limbic system (the amygdala and hippocampus especially)

Question 2

The ability of ecstasy to produce mild stimulation is due to what?

Answer 2

It’s actions in another part of the Lubbock system: the basal ganglia (control of voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, habit learning, eye movements, cognition and emotion).

It is here where its effects on the dopamine system may be important

Question 3

Heightened perceptions involved the effects of ecstasy in the what?

Answer 3

Neocortex
(Higher order brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning and language)

Question 4

Ecstasy can also reduce what? Why?

Answer 4

Appetite because it acts in the hypothalamus, which controls feeding behaviour. (Volkow, 2010; NIDA, 2018)