Brain
The four lobes of the brain.
What is frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital?
Drug abuse's cost U.S. annually in healthcare and crime-related costs.
What is $600 billion?
Chemicals that move between synapses and relay impulses between neurons
What is neurotransmitters?
This "feel-good" neurotransmitter is linked to reward pathways and voluntary motion.
What is dopamine?
Grams of brain tissue we lose every year.
What is 1 gram?
Agency is responsible for placing drugs into the five substance schedules
What is Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Where the brain stem is located
What is the base of cerebrum?
Drug that slows the central nervous system, and can cause oxygen deprivation with long-term mental damage.
What are opiods?
Dramatic changes in the frontal lobe occur during...
What is puberty?
Drug category that includes cocaine and Adderall.
What is Stimulants?
Processes sensory information like touch, temperature, pain, and spatial awareness
What is Parietal Lobe?
Cocaine and morphine are examples of drugs in this schedule.
What is Schedule 2?
White matter made up of
What is axon portion of neurons?
Negative effects of drug abuse.
What is violence, domestic abuse and disintegration.
Temporal lobe functions for...
What is processes auditory information, memory, and language comprehension?
This excitatory neurotransmitter is involved in long-term potentiation and memory.
What is Glumate?