NEUR 2600 Lecture Notes - Experimental Drug, Disinhibition, Motor Skill
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Drugs and behavioral variability: effect, tolerance, sensitization, addiction. Why do people do what they do on drugs: disinhibition, time out, myopia. Depend on individual, depend on the time, all sorts of complicated factors. Liver better at burning off the alcohol via enzymes: cellular. Cells have ability to recover, so brain cells are a little knocked out by alcohol, but they normalize themselves. Cells compensate for effects of alcohol: behavioral. You adjust your behavior, after a number of experiences you begin to cope with effects of alcohol. Each time you take a drug, could have a different effect on you. Went to a prison with whisky, and their only job was to drink as much whisky as they wanted. Blood alcohol went down after a time (tolerance) A rat trained on a motor skill under alcohol can do very well. Psychomoter stimulants -> brain goes a little faster.
