Scientists study the effects that drugs have on the brain and on people’s behavior. They use this information to develop programs for preventing drug abuse and for helping people recover from addiction.
Mind Matters is a series that explores the ways that different drugs affect your brain, body, and life. In this issue, we are going to talk about how drugs affect the brain. The human brain is a very complicated organ. Your brain weighs three pounds and controls everything you do.
Mind Matters is a series that explores the ways that different drugs affect your brain, body, and life. In this issue, we are going to talk about how drugs affect the brain. The human brain is a very complicated organ. Your brain weighs three pounds and controls everything you do.
Getting hooked on drugs is a sequence of attraction, seduction, compulsion, and pain. Drugs are dangerous and widespread, and dealing with them requires knowledge and help. This book is about alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs—how they work, what they do to the brain, and what can be done to stop using them. The book is espe-
Scientists study the effects drugs have on the brain and behavior. They use this information to develop programs for preventing drug use and for helping people recover from addiction.
Chronic Substance Use and Cognitive Effects on the Brain: An Introduction. Frequent use of a psychoactive substance (or substances) over an extended period, or chronic substance use, can negatively afect many aspects of a person’s life and well-being.
Scientists study the effects that drugs have on the brain and on people’s behavior. They use this information to develop programs for preventing drug abuse and for helping people recover from addiction.
Addiction Is a Brain Disease, and It Matters. Scientific advances over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain.
Drugs and Your Brain. UCLA NS 192C. Spring 2015. The Basics. What is the Brain? The Brain. Contains 1 trillion cells. One neuron can have up to 1500 synapses. Consistency of hard Jell-O. When awake, your brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb. Structure of a Neuron. Input Zone. Dendrites. Output Zone. Axon.
particular emphasis on the development and classification of drugs. Psychopharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs on behavior (usually of humans), with particular emphasis on changes in mood, emotions, and psychomotor abilities. Each of these subdisciplines is reductionistic in its own way and tends to analyze the brain and/or