Amber Higgins's List: Week 2 Assignment BSC

• DRUGS + YOUR BODY.
• Scholastic Choices, Jan2013, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p22-23, 2p

• Drug Addiction.
• Vital Speeches of the Day, Jun2006, Vol. 72 Issue 16/17, p505-508, 4p

• Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, Feb2013, p1-4, 4p
• Drug addiction and drug abuse
• Copyright of Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition is the property of Columbia University Press

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• On a high in an fMRI: my ecstasy brain scan.

  Authors:

  Lawton, Graham

  Source:

  New Scientist. 9/22/2012, Vol. 215 Issue 2883, p11-11. 3/4p.

• If, on the other hand, the subjects thought the price of these items was too high, there was increased activity in the insula-- an area involved in anticipating pain.

• . P. Read Montague of Baylor College of Medicine performed his version of the Pepsi Challenge inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine in 2004.

• Hallucinogens powerfully affect the way our five senses work, and change our impressions of time and reality.

• • orbital frontal cortex, just 
    on top of your eyes. It’s extraordinarily important for two 
    things. One of them is that this is the part of the brain that 
    allows us to exert inhibitory control. That is to say when we’re 
    faced with something we want very much but we cognitively 
    know that it’s not a good choice for us to do it, this is the area 
    of the brain that will actually send the signals to say do not 
    do it and allow you to inhibit that reaction. It’s also an area 
    of the brain that is extraordinarily important in assigning 
    value to stimuli