Exam 6: How Do Drugs and Hormones Influence the Brain and Behavior 

Gonadal hormones:

According to recent research, females are more likely than males to abuse:

What is behavioral myopia?

List the most efficient routes of drug administration.

Drugs that are used to manage neuropsychological illness are called:

Differentiate between agonists and antagonists.

Which of the following substances can pass through the endothelial membrane in the blood-brain barrier unassisted (i.e., without active transport)?

_____ is an example of a hallucinogenic drug.

Briefly describe the blood-brain barrier.

Why is the neurotransmitter acetylcholine important? What are the effects of curare on acetylcholine?

Curare:

_____ was once added to many drinks to help give them an energizing effect.

_____ results when tolerance for one drug is carried over to a different member of the same drug group.

Environmental factors known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with an increased risk of drug initiation and drug addiction. ACEs include:

What are endorphins?

Agonist is to antagonist as:

Schizophrenia is treated with:

Describe the wanting-and-liking theory of addiction.

The _____ does NOT have a blood-brain barrier.

Testosterone and cortisol are examples of _____ hormones.