Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Drugs's action in the brain
- To produce pleasure:
Anmerkungen:
- How do drugs work in the brain
- They Flood the circuit with dopamine
Anmerkungen:
- Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that regulate movement, emotion, cognition, motivation, and feelings of
pleasure.
- Inroduces the euphoric effects
- Teaches the people to repeat the behavior
- and become addicts
- It stimulates the brain's pleasure circuit
- The brain notes that something important is happening
- Teaches us to do it again
- We learn to abuse drugs
- Some drugs can release 2 to 10 times the amount of dopamine
- that natural rewards do.
- If you keep taking drugs:
- The dopamine's impact on the reward circuit become abnormally low
- The ability to experience any pleasure is reduced.
- The drugs...
- Erodes a person's self-control
- erodes ability to make sound decisions
- Destroy your life:
- Familiar
- Social
- Professional