Addiction Pt. 1
There are this many stages of addiction.
5
Signals in the brain begin as electrical and then become what?
Chemical
This is the name of the program from the University of Utah that allows us to study the effects of substances of abuse on mice.
Mouse Party
This is the name of the wizarding school Harry Potter attends.
Hogwarts
What is the name of the rehabilitation center we are sending our letters to?
Mountainside
This is the area between two communicating neurons where the chemicals cross a gap to get to the other side.
Synapse
What are chemicals that tap into the brain’s communication system and disrupt the way nerve cells communicate?
Drugs
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
Jupiter
This brain region is important in judgement, decision-making and critical thinking and does not mature until 25.
Prefrontal Cortex (PFC)
Sedative or Depressant drugs will shift the balance towards this chemical.
GABA
What substance is known as a "feel-good" hormone that gives us a sense of please?
Dopamine
This is the largest land animal.
African Elephant
What percent of all addictions have roots in the teenage years?
90%
This excitatory chemical is used in over 1/2 our brain synapses.
Glutamate
Which stage of addiction is involved with a person needing more of a substance to get the same effect of earlier use?
Tolerance
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is a chronic disease, often relapsing brain disease involved with compulsive drug seeking?
Addiction
Which substances of abuse act as "imitators" and will trick our brain into thinking it is our body's own natural chemical.
Heroin & Marijuana
Which stage of addiction involves the person getting sick without the drug?
Dependence
The acronym URL stands for what?
Uniform Resource Locator
What is a deterioration in someone’s state of health after a temporary improvement?
Relapse
Which substances of abuse overstimulate our brain and will prevent the normal recycling of dopamine molecules?
Cocaine & Methamphetamine
As a person continues to abuse drugs, the brain adapts to the dopamine surges by?
Producing less dopamine and/or less receptors
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson