PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Weight Loss, Alcoholic Drink, Bruxism
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When men consume 5 or more drinks. When women consume 4 or more in a single occasion (2 hours) binge drinking. It is absorbed into the blood through stomach lining and takes effect in the bloodstream and cns. The first part affected control judgement and inhibition. Next affected are additional areas in the cns leaving the drinker even less able to make sound judgements, speak clearly, and remember well. Motor difficulties increase as drinking continues and reaction times slow. Anxiety, irritability, tremor, ha, insomnia, nausea, tachycardia, htn, hyperthermia, hyperactive reflexes. Altered mental status, hallucinations, marked autonomic instability. Form aphasia in which the individual is able to produce language but had lost the ability to comprehend so that verbal productions have no meaning. Permanent form of dementia associated with long term alcohol use in which the individual develops retrograde and anterograde amnesia, leading to inability to remember past events or learn new information.
