Periodic Table of the Intoxicants
Those intoxicants colored in light blue, including alcohol.
What are sedative hypnotics
The two more technical terms used for the "bumps and grooves" of the brain.
What are gyri and sulci?
Who is Kevin McCauley.
Increased hormone released during times of stress
What is corticotropin releasing factor (CRF)?
Theory of addiction processing devoted to examining the pleasure centers of the brain also known as incentive-sensitization.
What is reward?
Fentanyl, Buprenorphine, Hydrocodone, and Morphine
What are opiates/opioids?
VTA of the midbrain
What is ventral tegmental area?
American psychologist who discovered the pleasure center of the brain
Who is James Olds?
Of the two types of "responders" mentioned in the film, the type more likely to become alcoholic.
The theory of addiction processing that proposes that glutamate initiates drug seeking and creates drug cues
What is memory?
The only pleasurable behavior (bottom row) actually classified as an addiction.
What is Gambling?
Failure of executive functioning happens in this part of the brain.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
The French novelist said to have made Madeleine cookies famous.
Who is Marcel Proust?
Noticeable, important or prominent
What is salience?
The theory of addiction that links vulnerability to the "resiliency" of the brain and a person's environment.
What are genes?
The notion of an increase in the vulnerability to develop another form of substance use disorder following recovering from a different substance use disorder.
What is cross addiction?
All drugs of abuse and potential compulsive behaviors release this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
Scientist who developed the role of stress and addiction with Michel Le Moal.
Who is George Koob?
The inability to derive normal pleasure from those things that have been pleasurable in the past.
What is anhedonia?
Addiction processing at this level arrives at the prefrontal cortex and is the accumulation of multiple parts of the system becoming dysfunctional.
What is choice?
Ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin, and LSD for example
What are Entheogens?
(Will accept Hallucinogens)
In relation to memory and learning, this is the most abundant neurochemical in the brain.
What is glutamate?
Known as an expert in relapse prevention and helping chemically dependent people through evidence based practices.
Who is Terence Gorski?
Neuroscientist's term for the brain's ability to tell the difference between things that are good for survival and harmful for survival.
What is hedonic capacity?
With continued drug use and withdrawal, the "anti-reward" system is recruited to counter-balance excess dopamine
What is stress? (aka Hedonic Allostasis Theory)