PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eating Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex, Behavioral Addiction
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Slide 98: different drugs have different peaks in their prevalence over time, marijuana and alcohol are much higher up, harder drugs are less. Slide 99: relative prevalence to these different types of drugs. If you want to talk about something that is less physical harm from committing crimes, alcohol is one of them because they destroy relationships, minds, and bodies because of how many people are drinking alcohol and drinking to excess. Slide 101: a dangerous combination would be alcohol and pills because alcohol dehydrates you and if you are dehydrated, you are much more vulnerable to some of the toxic effects like ecstasy. Starts to affect conscious thoughts in the prefrontal cortex: maybe we can regulate that with the executive system. If you start doing something against your will, that feels really bad, so the prefrontal cortex justifies a(cid:374)d ratio(cid:374)alizes (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause it"s a s(cid:272)ar(cid:455) thi(cid:374)g (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol.
