PSYC31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informed Consent, Body Language, Psychoactive Drug
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800 known substance with neurotoxic effects: solvents/fuels, pesticides: this is very prevalent in older generations, metals. Oxygen is one of the fastest ways to take out the nervous system. Types: anoxia: complete absence of oxygen to the brain, hypoxia, anoxemia. Causes: copd, sleep apnea, altitude sickness, trauma, co poisoning. Deficits during early development present clinically and may be irreversible. An (anorexia nervosa) and bn (bulimia nervosa) eating disorders can affect cognitive functions by lack of food. Geriatric populations are vulnerable to nutritional deficiencies that feature across age- related disorders: won"t take care to eat nutritional food (early stages of alzheimer"s, diminished income. Medications can impact on nutritional intake: some drugs can affect the metabolic processes of absorbing certain nutrients. Acquired type: brain trauma, substance abuse, etc. Cns injury or disease: susceptibility for sd. It can climb into the brain and pretty much destroy it.
