The Brain
The two areas of the brain that are important in understanding addiction.
What are the Frontal Cortex and the Midbrain
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How much does the Brain weigh?
3lbs
Brain plasticity is a term that describes the brain's ability to do what?
What is to heal.
Drugs imitate the brain's natural chemical messengers and overstimulate this area.
What is the reward circut
True or false: When people can't stop using drugs, even when they want to, and drug use is causing serious consequences. It is called addiction
True
True or false: Cocaine is made from a poppy plant
False! Cocaine is made from a coca plant
These are 3 neurotransmitters...
What is dopamine, seratonin, GABA, Adrenaline
Your brain contains about 100 billion of these.
What are neurons.
Daily Double: What is the strongest muscle in the human body?
What is the tongue!
The reward circuit in our brains are wired to make sure that we repeat healthy activities. When it is activated our brain makes a note to remember this activity. The same area is activated when using mood-altering substances which can lead to ______.
What is addiction.
Daily double: When do your teeth start growing?
6 months before you are born! One of every 2000 newborn, has a tooth when they are born.
True or false: Drugs cannot cause permanent damage to your brain?
False! it can cause permanent damage
What are three things alcohol affects in the brain
memory
decision making
impulse control
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The part of the brain where addiction begins
the midbrain
True or False: You need your brain to smell, taste, hear, and feel.
True!
What is the frontal cortex
What neurotransmitter does Meth mimic?
Dopamine
Which neurotransmitter is released from the basal ganglia in large amounts
Dopamine
Daily double! True or false: Saliva allows you to taste food.
True Saliva cannot disolve something, you cannot taste it!
Canaboids turn off what?
Inhibitory transmitters
When the drugs are not active in the brain, dopamine levels can drop causing what?
What is withdrawal symptoms
What chemical substance do neurons release to send messages to each other?
The neurons send messages to each other by releasing chemical substances called NEUROTRANSMITTERS into the gaps between cells.
Daily double: True or False: The gaps between cells are referred to as neurons
False! These gaps are called synapses.
What does alcohol metabolize as.
Sugar
Sweating, shaking, nausea and anxiety are examples of what?
What is withdrawl symptoms
List 3 effects of smoking on your body
restricts oxygen flow,
narrowing of blood vessels
increased heart rate and BP
Daily use of this will increase your grey matter in your prefrontal cortex and thus greatly improving your ability to self-regulate your emotions and allow for well-adjusted responses to whatever life throws you.
What is meditation?
Daily Double: What is the only way to remove alcohol from your bloodstream?
TIME
This is in charge of all the functions that our body needs to stay alive. Breathing, moving blood and digesting food. It also links the brain to the spinal cord which runs down the back which moves muscles and limbs as well as lets the brain know what's going on in the body.
What is the brain stem.
The medulla which handles automatic functions like breathing, consciousness, and body temperature. The effects of alcohol on the medulla can be _____ _____.
What is life threatening.
Daily double: How many bones are in your feet?
52 bones, accounting for one quarter of the bones in your body.
Dopamine receptors decrease to try to regulate the flood of dopamine in your system from drug use, causing you to become less sensitive to dopamine.
What is tolerance?
Daily double: The tendency for the body to seek "balance" is called this,.
Homeostasis
my drinking is not a problem, i can quit when i want to. is an example of what
What is denial
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My dad is afraid of heights, what phobia would best describe this?
Acrophobia