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Nfia's Guide to Drugs and the Brain
This site provides a list of links to information on different types of drugs. Content on the pages include information about the drug itself, effects the drug has on the brain, common street names for the drug, and legal status.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Drugs Alter the Brain's Reward Pathway
This site provides interesting data about how drugs alter the brain. Find facts, pictures, and animations to help portray the critical information about drugs of abuse. Also link to teacher resources and lesson plans.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Pbs: Do All Drugs Affect the Brain Similarly?
Discusses the mechanism by which drugs effect the brain. Contains links which discuss other aspects of drug addiction.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
Sara Garofalo explains how some drugs can alter the communication between cells in the brain.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Drugs, Brains and Behavior
This is a link to a book posted on the internet which discusses many different drugs and their effects on the brain. Also provides some discussion on the influences of different drugs and neurotransmitters in reference to different brain...
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Learning About Drugs and Alcohol Through Biotechnology [Pdf]
Find out what role genetics plays in why people become drug and alcohol abusers, and investigate how biotechnology can help shape the future of medications used for addicts.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institute on Drug Abuse: Brain Power! The Nida Junior Scientist Program
This program uses scientific techniques to examine how drugs effect the brain. Its ultimate goal is to present students with the negative effects of substance abuse and show the benefits of staying substance free. Each of the lessons...
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Partnership for a Drug Free America: Parents Guide to the Teen Brain
A complete guide to the development of the teenage brain. Find out about typical teenage behaviors, and the science behind their brain development that makes them act in certain ways.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: How Opioids Change the Brain: Lesson Plan
In this lesson module, to be used with the program Understanding the Opioid Epidemic, students will understand that addiction is medically classified as a disease. They will learn about brain structure and functioning and how they are...
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Drug Abuse and the Adolescent Brain
This module focuses on the science that explains the effects that drugs have on the brain and, by extension, a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Specifically, it focuses on the adolescent brain. Adolescents may be more...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Brain Chemistry Post Assessment
The human brain is complex. Messages within the brain and the rest of the nervous system are conducted by cells called neurons. Drugs and other substances can interfere with or modify the transmission of messages between neurons. In this...
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: "Ecstasy" Damages the Brain
This article summarizes a medical study that examined ecstasy's effect on brain function. Learn how this designer drug causes both short term and long term damage in users' brains.
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University of Nebraska at Omaha: Brains Rule! Games: Ecstasy Invaders
Go on a mission inside a nerve cell to find out about how neurons produce and release neurotransmitters to communicate with other neurons. Learn what happens to these brain chemicals when the drug ecstasy interrupts the process.
Scholastic
Scholastic: The Awesomely Evolved Human Brain
This lesson plan reinforces comprehension of key facts and concepts in the student article "The Awesomely Evolved Human Brain." Students will understand that the brain's reward system has evolved to help ensure the survival of the...
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learn Genetics: Mouse Party
Using an interactive demonstration, this educational site provides a glimpse into how illicit drugs disrupt the synapse through unique molecular mechanisms causing the drug user to feel 'high'.
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Drugs and the Brain: Lsd
This website includes a very brief overview of how LSD affects the brain and causes hallucinations. Also, there is a list of "common street names" and an explanation of LSD's "legal status" as a Schedule I drug.
Columbia University
Drug Mechanisms and Brain Function: The Antipsychotic Experience
Article on the effect of certain drugs on human personality. Article's foundation is in anti-psychotic research.
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Partnership for a Drug Free America: Herbal Ecstasy
Organized into several very brief sections, this website from Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a good overview of the designer drug called ecstasy. Learn what the slang names of this drug are and how the drug affects the body and...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Reward Pathway in the Brain
An physiologically and chemically illustrated presentation of pleasurable stimuli and the reward pathways followed in the brain. Also explained are studies of addiction that seem to take over a rational mind.
Other
The Anti Drug: Ecstasy
Read about the effects of ecstasy and how this designer drug can cause both short-term and long-term effects to users' bodies and brains.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Your Brain Is More Than a Bag of Chemicals
Modern psychiatric drugs treat the chemistry of the whole brain, but neurobiologist David Anderson believes in a more nuanced view of how the brain functions. He illuminates new research that could lead to targeted psychiatric...
Biotechnology Institute
Biotechnology Institute: Your World: Investigating [Pdf]
Take a glimpse at the way normal brains work and about brain disorders. Learn how research and technology help us learn about the fundamental molecular workings of the brain.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Comparing Brain Images [Pdf]
Color-by-numbers PET images allow comparison of active areas in a drug-free brain and in a cocaine addict's brain.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: Research Report Series: Hallucinogens and Dissociative Drugs
An advanced level report which defines hallucinogens and dissociative and explains their effects.
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