CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Reuptake, Ketamine, Nicotine

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

Document Summary

Sedatives can work even more strongly than alcohol. Rufees wipe out memory, and are known at the date rape drug. Work on the opioid center, our brain"s pain center, super addictive, block out pain, causes dopamine to released, creating a feeling of euphoria. Things that affect your drug experience: the dose you take, the set , things you do in order to use the drug, the setting, or the environment where the drugs are used. Changing the setting where drugs are taken cause the effect to be higher. Stimulants do work directly on the dopamine reward pathway, they facilitate neurotransmitter activity, specifically of dopamine and norepinephrine examples of legal stimulants: caffeine and nicotine. Amphetamine: prevent reuptake of dopamine and norepinephrine, they increase dopamine and norepinephrine activity. Symptoms: false sense of happiness, invincibility, strange mouth movements, psychosis: same symptoms as schitzophrenia.