PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Peyote, Barbiturate, Hallucinogen

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Catherine Rawn

Document Summary

Affect the brain: barbiturates, drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment, ex. Alchohol: hallucinogens, psychedelic (mind manifesting) drugs that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input, ex. Lsd, marijuana, peyote, magic mushrooms: loss of oxygen to the brain. Continued use of a drug requires larger doses to equal the same effect. Psychological tolerance: body has learned the effects of the drug and how to deal with it. In the absence of the drug, user may feel physical pain and cravings. Don"t know how to destress, cant deal with problems psychologically. Pre frontal cortex shut down at high blood alcohol content. Is brain stem too affected you pass out warning signs of alcholism. Regretting things done or said when drunk. Promising to sotp but knowing you wont. * relaxes muscles, releases endorphins , relives stress. Brian areas effects by ecstasy: neocortex, hypo , serotonin system.