Brain Structures and Drugs
Psychoactive or behaviorally active drugs are substances that alter internal and external behavioral processes including activity levels, moods and feelings. As a result of ...
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Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Images of the human BRAIN constructed using sophisticated computer systems have proven valuable for studying the effects of abused drugs. Nuclear medic...
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Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Computer systems can construct images of the human brain. These noninvasive procedures are valuable for studying how abused drugs affect the brain.
Ima...
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Advances in Understanding Brain Behavior in Animals
Overview
Understanding the behavior of animals is essential to the work of scientists today. Animal models are used in many areas to study anatomy a...
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Brain
With its hundreds of billions of interconnectednerve cells, or neurons, continuously transmitting electrochemical signals to each other, the human brain is the most complex object yet discovered...
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Synapse
Neurons give rise to processes known as dendrites and axons that form a complex network of interconnections throughout the brain at specialized sites called synapses. Around the turn of the ni...
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Brain
Part of the central nervous system located in the skull. Controls mental and physical actions of the organism.
The brain, with the spinal cord and network of nerves, controls information flow th...
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According to the biological perspective, all behaviour must have physiological basis and in order to understand human functioning and behaviour, one must focus on the basic physiological processes, wh...
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Brain Structures and Drugs
Imaging Techniques: Visualizing the Living Brain
Advances in Understanding Brain Behavior in Animals
Brain
Guide to the Anatomy of the Brain
Brain
