PY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Frontal Lobe, Normative Social Influence, Sympathetic Nervous System
29 Sep 2016
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Insula (area of brain) and dopamine, are important to addiction. Depressant, slow body function and neural activity. Slowed neural processing: reaction time bad, brain taking long to communicate, slow sympathetic nervous system. Disrupts memory formation: suppress rem sleep. Trick y because it is legal if you are of age. Extended use: korsakoff"s syndrome: trouble moving, brain damage, can"t remember things, have difficulty with explicit memory. Less aware, less in control, less knowing what is happening. Barbiturates: tranquillizers, depress cns activity, for anxiety, seizures, insomnia, binds to gab, phenobarb, fiorinal. Opiates: heroin, morphine, methadone (pain medication, receptors & dopamine, fentanyl/ duragesic, long term use, memory problems. Dopamine: inhibiting reuptake of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine. Some stats: 3% of highs school seniors tried cocaine. Higher levels of unsafe sex & hiv. Physical damaging: you never seen someone who does meth looking great damages serotonin and dopamine neurons. Move impulsive when trying to stay clean.
