PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Micrognathism, Diazepam, Teratology
21 Sep 2017
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Absorption: 20% digested by stomach, 80% in upper intestines. If consumption and body weight are known, bac can be calculated. For every device you put in, you need to take out some water. Men just have a pool (lots of blood): women have less available blood than men do. There isn"t a lot of blood to dilute the alcohol: women have higher body fat, this concentrates alcohol in the plasma, need to know how to read the bac chart level. Pharmacodynamics hours since first started drinking from the amount of alcohol in their system. Will be on exam: unitary hypothesis of action we don"t know how it works. The alcohol molecule impacts the entire system all at once. We know that this isn"t entirely accurate: alcohol has been shown to affect, glutamate systems (excitatory, gaba systems (inhibitory, intracellular transduction processes (biochemical sequence.
