Exam 3: How Drugs Work in the Body and on the Mind

The psychoactive effects of intravenous injections are faster than those of inhalation.

Bodily changes that result from stressful or emergency situations are handled by the __________.

Analogy: ______ is to voluntary as ______ is to involuntary.

Products of biotransformation are called __________.

The pattern of human behavior that characterizes psychological dependence closely parallels __________.

You can facilitate the crossing of the blood-brain barrier by combining protein-based drugs with __________.

The part of the brain that determines when we sleep and when we wake up is located in the pons.

The long appendage extending from the cell body of a neuron is referred to as the __________.

Suppositories may be necessary if __________.

How does the double-blind procedure for studies of drug effects allow you to find out whether a drug has a genuine effect on the user beyond a mere placebo effect?

If Drug A has an effect of 5 and Drug B has an effect of 8,a purely additive combination effect would be equivalent to __________.

An effective placebo to a well-known red pill containing antianxiety medication would be what color?

Suppositories are typically administered __________.

The gap between neurons is known as the __________.

The nucleus accumbens in the brain appears to be associated with what feature of many psychoactive drugs?

The poison curare is considered a(n)__________.

The most common means of drug elimination is through excretion in the __________.

L-dopa is administered instead of dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease because __________.

Tetanus shots,flu shots,and most inoculations are administered by intramuscular injections.

Psychoactive drugs can produce bodily effects that are oriented toward parasympathetic rather than sympathetic activation.