Methamphetamine is one of the most addictive and neurotoxic drugs of abuse and it produces large increases in dopamine, a brain chemical associated with feelings of pleasure and reward — both by increasing dopamine’s release from nerve cells and by blocking its reuptake.
Entries Tagged as 'Drugs and Brain Disorders'
Methamphetamine Brain
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Which Brain Do You Want?
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
A DVD that shows brain images of normal brains and drug damaged brains.
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Brain Images of Human Behavior
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments
It compares normal brain images to abnormal brain images and looks at functional neuroanatomy.
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Images of The Brain on Drugs
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Comparisons of normal brain images and brains that have been affected by alcohol and drugs.
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Prescriptions and the Brain
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Studies have shown that people who take prescriptions for an anxiety disorder don’t get much help from it. And doctors have no definitive way to predict who will, and who won’t, benefit from each anti-anxiety prescription they write. You are like a medical experiment or guinea pig.
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Club Drugs Damage The Brain
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
A series of studies at University of Florida over the past five years has shown that using the popular club drug Ecstasy, also called MDMA, and other forms of [tag]methamphetamine[/tag] lead to the same type of brain changes, cell loss and protein fluctuations in the brain that occur after a person endures a sharp blow [...]
