PSYC 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Spinal Cord, Intrinsic Activity, Myelin

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3
• Professor: mis

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Alcohol affects this first; that"s why cant walk in straight line no coordinated timed movement. Cord of nervous tissue that extends caudally from medulla. Its job is to collect all sensory info and send it up to brain. General structure (white matter) outside axons tract, myelin is the white. Protected by neuron sircuit reflexes at level at spinal cord. Study of the effets of drugs on the nervous system & behavior. Ligand something that binds (can be a nt made within body, drugs and toxins are exogenous) A chemical that binds to a receptor. Process by which drugs are absorbed, distributed within the body, then metabolized and excreted. Factors that affect rate at which drugs get into the brain: Enter the body and bloodstream and travel to targets. Not gonna go over drug admistration, but book does. But will teach the terminology when talking drugs. A ligand that binds to produce a full effect.