software, multimedia Painkillers numbing the mind
- Summary
- The human body manufactures its own painkillers to ensure survival when injured. This program shows how opium and its derivatives, heroin and morphine, hijack that natural pain-numbing ability. Illustrating the brain's ability to alter its own che... Read more
- Contents
- Historical Use of Opium (3:27) -- Opium-Based Drugs: Heroin (2:48) -- Discovery of Endogenous Activators of Opiate Receptors (4:07) -- Links Between Dopamine and Pleasure (3:54) -- Pain and Reward Pathways Lead to Addictive Habits (3:10) -- Differ... Read more
- Format
- software, multimedia
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
- Publisher
- Films Media Group 2006
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| Library | Location | Status |
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Substance abuse Health aspects
Substance abuse
Spinal cord
Psychobiology
Palliative Care
Pain Prevention & control
Neuropsychology
Nervous system Psychology
Microbiology
Impulse control disorders
Diagnostic microbiology
Decision making Psychological aspects
Central nervous system
Brain Psychology
Brain Physiology
Addiction
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