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Image Credit: Ireland, K. Visualizing Science. 2011. Wiley & Sons.
Unit Seven – Nervous System
Agenda
Overview of the Brain Drug Addiction Effects of drug addiction on brain function and
chemistry. Neurological risks associated with drug use. How addiction gets hard-wired into the brain. How drug addiction can spin off into other
health crises. Treatments and/or cures for drug addiction
and their drawbacks.
What is the brain?
Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiate , and Marijuana.
Image Credit: Ireland, K. Visualizing Science. 2011. Wiley & Sons.
What is the brain made up of?
Illustration used with permission, courtesy of Lydia V. Kibiuk and the Society for Neuroscience.
Why is the brain the body’s Command Center?
Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates. and Marijuana.
How does one become addicted?
“NIDA’s mission is to bring the power of science to bear
on drug abuse and addiction.” Photo courtesy of NIDA
What are the results of addiction?
Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET)Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana.
What happens to your brain after consumption of cocaine?
Photo courtesy of Nora Volkow, Ph.D. Mapping cocaine binding sites in human and baboon brain in vivo. Fowler JS, Volkow ND, Wolf AP, Dewey SL, Schlyer DJ, Macgregor RIR, Hitzemann R, Logan J, Bendreim B, Gatley ST. et al. Synapse 1989;4(4):371-377.
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What are some of the long-term effects of What are some of the long-term effects of substance abuse?substance abuse?
Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana.
What are some of the treatments for Drug Addiction?
Image Credit: Microsoft Clip Art
Can drug addiction be cured?
Photo courtesy of Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D.
AmygdalaAmygdalanot lit upnot lit upAmygdalaAmygdala
activatedactivated
Cocaine VideoCocaine Video Nature VideoNature VideoBack of BrainBack of Brain
Front of BrainFront of Brain
Visit NIDA’s Web Site at:http://drugabuse.govhttp://drugabuse.gov
Photo courtesy of NIDA
Unit Seven Review
Read Chapter 7 Complete Discussion Board – The Brain
Bank Complete Self-Assessment Complete Lab – Mapping the Nervous
System Complete Tables and Answer Questions
Week Eight Preview
Reading – Chapters 18 & 19 Discussion - Understanding Birth Control Seminar - Obtaining information about
your fetus Project: Survey of Simple Human Genetic
Traits – Use Worksheet on DocSharing Self Assessment for Unit 8
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