PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mptp, Designer Drug, Positron Emission Tomography

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Andra Smith

Document Summary

All signs of parkinson"s; but usually occurs at 50 gradual, very slow. But younger people (early 30) and came over night. Looked like parkinson"s disease but didn"t fit the description. Different location; family - also used heroin; had the same condition. Came from labratories (synthetic hard drug) more powerful than heroin - legal because the structures were different - designer drugs. Designer drugs are not restricted by law as it has small changes to the chemical structure - i. e looks like, smells like, taste like but isn"t heroin. Decided to put the participants and parkinson"s drugs. Able to move replaces dopamine; if enough dopamine dies; parkinson"s occurs - When they injected the rats with mppp the rat froze up but went back to normal later. Side product pure mptp of mppp - if too much heat is added possible of getting a 99% of mptp. This could possible be the reason in the rats.