PSYC 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cirrhosis, Reward System
23 Mar 2018
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If the mother is drinking so the is baby. 20% gets absorbed by the stomach, 80% by the intestine. 15% is lost to first pass metabolism, meaning that it get"s lost due to simply ingesting it. Consuming it on an empty stomach, causes it to act very fast. When you have a full stomach it takes a lot longer for the alcohol to act. When the food somewhat slows down the absorption to the rest of the system, alcohol dehydrogenase has more time to break the molecules down. Imagine a clean sink and you spill a beer down the sink, it will quickly go down the train, If consumption and body weight are known, bac (blood alcohol concentration) can be calculated: bac of 0. 08 gram% = intoxicated. Ethanol different term for alcohol: broken pieces of alcohol - acetaldehyde. Aldehyde dehydrogenase blocks acetaldehyde and makes it build up. *know how to calculate bac and understand the chart*
