Chemistry of Alcohol
The _______ of ethanol is in the total volume ranges from low, medium, and high (Khan, 2026, slide 6).
What is percentage?
Under normal conditions, a balance exists between ________ and ________ neurotransmission in the brain (Khan, 2026, slide 23).
What is excitatory and inhibitory?
Alcohol can cause 7 types of cancer, with the most common being _________ and _________ cancer (Khan, 2026, slide 9).
What is breast and colon?
Number of drinks that is permissible for men _________ and women _________ to drink per week (Khan, 2026, slide 8).
What is 15 drinks per man and 10 per woman?
This is another name for ethanol (Khan, 2026, slide 22).
Ethyl alcohol
In this neurotransmission, neurotransmitters bind to receptors on the receiving neurons and prevent an action potential from being generating.
What is inhibitory neurotransmission?
At two drinks, these could begin to surface (Khan, 2026, slide 27).
What are signs of intoxication?
Heavy drinking is consuming _________ drinks in one setting (Khan, 2026, slide 20).
What is 5 or more drinks?
Alcohol is made up of three main components (Khan, 2026, slide 22).
What is Hydrogen, Carbon and the Hydroxyl group?
This type of neurotransmission occurs when a nerve impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another by the release of neurotransmitters (Khan, 2026, slide 24).
What is excitatory neurotransmission?
High doses of alcohol that is quickly consumed can cause total amnesia referred to as _________(Kolb & Whishaw, 2021, p 275).
What is blackout?
Type of tolerance that allows the body and behaviour to adapt to alcohol consumption _________, _________, ________,_________ (Kolb & Whishaw, 2021, p 271-272)
What is acute tolerance, metabolic tolerance, pharmacodynamic tolerance, and behavioural tolerance?
These three groups are different chemical forms of alcohol (Khan, 2026, slide 22).
What is the ethyl alcohol group, the methyl alcohol group, and the isopropyl alcohol group?
These types of receptors increase in numbers due to the repeated use of alcohol as a neuroadaptive increase in response to reduced glutamate activity (Kolb & Whishaw, 2021, p 285).
What is NMDA receptors?
This syndrome is caused by the deficiency of vitamin B (thiamine) from heavy alcohol consumption over many years (Kolb & Whishaw, 2021, p 277).
What is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome?
Small percentage of alcoholics that go through withdrawal _________(Kolb & Whishaw, 2021, p 273).
What is delirium tremens?