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What class of psychoactive drugs slows brain and body?
Depressants
What is metamphetamine?
It is a psychostimulant of the phenethylamine and amphetamine class of psychoactive drugs.
Psychoactive drugs usually create their effects by mimicking in the brain?
nuerotransmitters
Effects of psychoactive drugs?
Are widely varied. Psychoactive drugs are drugs that affect brain chemistry and include a wide range of pharmaceutical compounds, with an even wider range of effects.
When was Journal of Psychoactive Drugs created?
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs was created in 1967.
What effect do psychoactive drugs have on children with autism?
They have been on psychoactive drugs since day 1.
What are hypnotics drugs also known as?
Hypnotic drugs' clinical name is soporific drugs. They are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary use is to induce sleep and in the treatment of insomnia.
What are the drugs caffeine tannin and nicotine?
They are psychoactive drugs
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 is a Benzodiazepine?
A benzodiazepine is any of a class of psychoactive drugs which are used in the treatment of anxiety, insomnia, and other related disorders.
What is a psychoactive effect?
A psychoactive effect is an affect on mood or behavior caused by the misuse of drugs.
Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods are?
Psychoactive (psychotropic) drugs alter perceptions and moods. One class of drugs which causes vast changes in perception is psychedelics.
