Psychoactive Drugs
Speed up body functions and enhance energy
What are stimulants?
This cortex sends signals to your muscles to tell them to move
What is the motor cortex?
This part of the limbic system handles memory formation
What is the hippocampus?
Your 24 hour biological clock
What is Circadian Rhythym?
These cells in your eye are responsible for color vision
What are cones?
Slow down body functions and neural activity.
What are depressants?
This lobe processes visual information
What is occipital lobe?
This bean-sized organ processes emotions, especially fear and aggression
What is the amygdala?
Breathing repeatedly stops and starts, disrupting sleep and causing excessive daytime sleepiness.
What is sleep apnea?
The process of converting incoming physical energy into a neural code that can be processed
Transduction
Alter perception and can cause visual or auditory hallucinations.
What are hallucinogens?
This portion of the brain is responsible for higher-order thinking, decision-making, and executive functioning
What is the frontal lobe?
This organ sends sensory information to the right areas of the brain for processing
What is the thalamus?
Paradoxical sleep where the brain is active but the body is paralyzed.
What is Rapid Eye Movement (REM sleep)?
The body's ability to detect the position and movement of muscles, joints, and limbs. This is how you to know where your body parts are without looking at them.
What is your kinesthetic sense?
Drugs that mimic neurotransmitters or enhance their action.
What are agonists?
This lobe is responsible for processing sensory information
What is the parietal lobe?
This area handles coordination and muscle memory
What is the cerebellum?
Cells in the hypothalamus, which control melatonin production and control the circadian rhythym
What is the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus
The part of your ear that converts sound waves into neural signals
What is the cochlea?
Drugs that block neurotransmitter activity.
What are antagonists?
This area of the brain is responsible for speech production
What is Broca's Area?
This area controls sleep/wake cycles, alertness, and voluntary movements
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What is the Reticular Activating System (RAS)?
When deprived of REM sleep, the body will catch up by increasing the amount of REM sleep in subsequent nights.
What is REM Rebound?
The perceived pitch of a tone
What is frequency?