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What is the effect of excitatory psychoactive drugs on the brain?
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Excitatory psychoactive drugs such as nicotine and cocaine primarily affect the central nervous system. They increase post-synaptic transmissions and may result in addictions and substance abuse. These stimulants increase the alertness of the user by mimicking the action of neurotransmitters or delaying the breakdown of neurotransmitters. They can also affect the transmission of optical signals in the thalamus of the brain.
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How do psychoactive drugs affect the brain?
Psychoactive drugs can increase or decrease transmissions to post-synaptic membranes. Excitatory drugs can mimic the action of neurotransmitters or delay the breakdown of neurotransmitters. On the other hand, inhibitory drugs can hyper-polarize the post-synaptic membrane or reduce the effect of excitatory neurotransmitters.
What are the drugs and medicines that effect the brain and change how you perceive and think or feel?
Psychoactive.
What effect do psychoactive drugs have on children with autism?
They have been on psychoactive drugs since day 1.
Which is an effect of psychoactive drug abuse?
A psychoactive effect is an affect on mood or behavior caused by the misuse of drugs.
Psychoactive drugs usually create their effects by mimicking in the brain?
nuerotransmitters
When was Journal of Psychoactive Drugs created?
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs was created in 1967.
What is non psychoactive drugs?
A substance that does not affect the brain or cause changes to mental processes. Examples include non-psychoactive hemp (for snorting), diet pills, and antibiotics.
Does drugs effect the heart or the brain more?
The brain.
What drugs are used to treat patients with Lewy body dementia?
most notably a class of drugs called cholinesterase inhibitors . These medications tend to increase a brain neurochemical called acetylcholine, which is an excitatory brain chemical that is decreased in persons with LBD
What are the drugs caffeine tannin and nicotine?
They are psychoactive drugs
Physiological effect of drugs?
brain damage
How do some drugs effect emotions?
Drugs are the ones that affect the brain directly. Thus drugs can alter where brain stores it's emotions.
