PSYB65H3 Lecture 7: Lecture 7 to 11

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Neuropsychology deal w/ individuals that self-induce & taking it usually for fun addiction. Talking about drugs in terms of addicting qualities, tolerance, withdrawal, and mechanism it works through. Tolerance: it"s when taken repeatedly the same amount of drug give decrease behaviour effect almost all drugs have this quality but not all of them & all vary in the level of tolerance. For most drugs the longer time period on them (as well as dosage) it"s harder to get them out of it because of these symptoms experience by patient especially for depressant: e. g. Alcohol -> don"t take it off quickly (cold turkey) in hospital put them on valium for while. Implies that person want to have that drugs its behaviour or physical dependence on the drug diff types of addiction: psychological & physical addiction. Psychological addiction behaviour dependent on drugs hard to define it.

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