Alcohol & Pleasure
This part of the brain is in charge of stress and the flight or fight response
What is the amygdala?
What 3 neurological disorders can be caused by alcoholism?
Polyneuropathy, Cerebellar Degeneration, and Dementia
When the ___ is affected, it results in loss of balance and an unsteady gait
What is Cerebellum?
Do men and women experience the same social effects from alcohol?
Men and women experienced about the same results with men being a bit higher.
Bacteria, yeast, and microorganisms that form on ___ result in a chemical reaction causing sugars to convert into ethyl alcohol
What is fermented berries/fruit?
What is fatty liver disease?
build up of fat in the liver
What 2 parts of the brain are affected when your BAC is at 0.18-0.3?
Cerebellum and Hippocampus
When the ____ is affected, impulse control and decision making is altered resulting in drunk driving
What is Frontal Lobe?
A substance such as alcohol may be used for pain relief. The substance is usually used in a maladaptive way. This the ____ hypothesis
What is the self-medication hypothesis?
This species is similar to humans as they often show the same side effects for alcohol use. Research showed this species drank more when housed alone rather than in a social group
What are Rhesus macaques?
Alcohol increases the activity of this to make us feel pleasure
Reward processing system
____ is released into the brain that makes you experience euphoria at a BAC of 0.03-0.12
What is dopamine?
When the ____ is affected, your emotions are more exaggerated and you often forget things
What is Limbic System?
This can oftentimes be stripped because of guiltiness/making bad decisions or drinking past the level of where your BAC experiences hit this point
What is euphoria?
This species can consume alcohol several times the legal limit whit no side effects because of there alcohol tolerance
What is the pen tailed treeshrew?
True or False: The A process outlasts the B process
Which is not an issue caused by cerebellar degeneration?
Balance Issues
Vision issues
Memory issues
Speech issues
3. Memory issues
When the ____ is affected, you start losing control of body temp and heart rate which often leads to passing out, systems shutting down, and sometimes death
What is the medulla?
The ____ has spiky flower buds that limits how many species drink the alcoholic nectar.
What is the bertam palm plant?
This sends out dopamine signals to the nucleus accumbens
What is the ventral tegmental?
At what BAC is death extremely likely unless medically treated due to the brain failing to control your vital symptoms?
BAC of 0.45
When tested in vitro, ADH 4 results show what?
Oxidation of retinol is more efficient than ethanol