[BPS1101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (28 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Drugs 101: lecture one history and intro. Find some facts to fit those conclusions. The human brain"s default mode is magic. We are convinced we are right and so we go through the process of validating ourselves through magic. This is a survival mechanism for quick decision making in dangerous situations. This type of thinking slows progress because it does not deal with reality. This type of thinking speeds progress because it is grounded in reality. World life span is much lower than the life span in canada, but it is still almost double that throughout most of human kind. In some countries of the world, the life span is actually lower than life expectancy in the stone age. Information below is for 2009: know number (ballpark estimates, answers will be obvious on exams) Approximately 30 to 35 years for most of recorded history (last 6000 years)