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Drug Addiction Addictive Drugs
4,264 wordsThe emphasis is on biological mechanisms underlying addiction, although some other factors influencing drug addiction will also be discussed. The presentation is limited primarily to psychomotor stimulants (e. g. , amphetamine, cocaine) and opiates (e. g. , heroin, morphine) for two reasons. First, considerable knowledge has been gained during the past 15 years regarding the neurobiological mechanisms mediating their addictive properties. Second, these two pharmacological classes represent the b...
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Neuro Transmission Positive Charge
488 wordsneurotransmitters play a central and critical role in our psychological existence, identity, and experience of the world Neurotransmitters are chemicals that communicate between nerves. In some ways, neurons are like computers: they receive messages, process those messages, and send out the results as new messages to other cells. In the case of neurons, messages consist of chemicals that interact with the outer surface of the cell membrane. This chemical interaction with the cell membrane causes...
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Substance Abuse Neuro Transmission
2,526 wordsPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE Physiological Mechanisms of Susceptibility To Psychoactive Substance Dependence Abstract The scholars enter into controversy concerning the genetic susceptibility to psychoactive substance dependence. Currently some evidence has been advanced which confirms that patients suffering from opiomania often report hereditary characters of alcoholism. The paper examines a chance of fundamental uni city of central mechanisms...
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Hallucinogenic Drugs Neuro Transmission
1,695 words... Small quantities cause relaxation and slight changes in mood but larger quantities can cause stomach pain, nausea and vomiting, shivering, a numbing of the mouth and dizziness. People sometimes mistakenly take poisonous mushrooms for those containing psilocybin. Cannabis is a depressant drug that slows down the body's systems. Very strong cannabis preparations or larger quantities of cannabis can cause mild hallucinogenic effects. These can lead to anxiety or panic in the user (Australian Dr...
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Drug Addiction Addictive Drugs
8,497 wordsDrug Addiction as a Psychobiological Process The emphasis is on biological mechanisms underlying addiction, although some other factors influencing drug addiction will also be discussed. The presentation is limited primarily to psychomotor stimulants (e. g. , amphetamine, cocaine) and opiates (e. g. , heroin, morphine) for two reasons. First, considerable knowledge has been gained during the past 15 years regarding the neurobiological mechanisms mediating their addictive properties. Second, thes...
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Fight Or Flight Sleep Paralysis
1,937 wordsFear-Induced Hallucination: How Sleep Paralysis Triggers Hallucination I researched the web to find out how hallucination starts during an episode of Sleep Paralysis. As I have written in my previous paper, a Sleep Paralysis, although often believed as an evils work, results from some errors of the neural transmission in the brain during REM sleep (1). During a frightening state of Sleep Paralysis, one experiences total body immobility and cannot speak or move besides little eye movements and re...
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