Areas of the Brain
Area of the brain responsible for heart rate and breathing.
What is the brainstem?
Age at which the brain is considered fully developed.
What is 25?
Drug use changes brain circuits that are responsible for _________.
What are natural rewards?
A type of cell in the brain that has electrical activity.
What is a neuron?
Risk of addiction to alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine is highest in this age group.
What are teens?
Area of the brain responsible for vision.
What is Occipital Cortex?
Area of the brain that is the last to fully develop.
What is the frontal cortex?
This drug affects the nicotinic receptor.
What is nicotine?
This term refers to the brain's ability to change in response to what you do.
What is neuroplasticity?
These two drugs both have the ability to negatively affect memory in teens.
What are alcohol and marijuana?
Area of the brain responsible for decision-making, working memory, and planning.
What is the frontal cortex?
Brain maturity means that the brain creates MORE and BETTER ways of ________.
What is communicating?
This drug affects the cannabinoid receptor.
What is marijuana?
What are neurotransmitters?
High doses of this drug slows down brain functioning and behavior.
What is alcohol?
Area of the brain that is responsible for creating new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
The process by which unused neurons are eliminated.
What is pruning?
Most drugs that humans abuse can affect this neurotransmitter system.
What is dopamine?
The part of a neuron that receives messages.
What are dendrites?
People who use this drug frequently may have difficulty paying attention and remembering things.
What is marijuana?
Area of the brain involved in emotional responses.
What is the limbic system?
This process involves wrapping neurons in insulation, and it speeds up the rate at which neurons can communicate with each other.
What is myelination?
This drug (that we talked about today) affects many different neurotransmitter systems spread throughout the brain.
What is alcohol?
This material insulates neurons, resulting in faster communication.
What is myelin?
Users smoke these two drugs, which can cause long-term lung problems.
What are nicotine and marijuana?