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Teaching Packets: The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
- Section I: Introduction to the Brain
- Section II: The Reward Pathway and Addiction
- Section III: The Action of Heroin (Morphine)
- 1: The action of heroin (morphine)
- 2: Localization of opiate binding sites within the brain and spinal cord
- 3: Morphine binding within the reward pathway
- 4: Opiates binding to opiate receptors in the nucleus accumbens: increased dopamine release
- 5: Rats self-administer heroin
- 6: Definition of tolerance
- 7: Brain regions mediating the development of morphine tolerance
- 8: Definition of dependence
- 9: Brain regions mediating the development of morphine dependence
- 10: Addiction vs dependence
- Section IV: The Action of Cocaine
- Background Information for the Presenter
Section III: The Action of Heroin (Morphine)
In This Section
- 1: The action of heroin (morphine)
- 2: Localization of opiate binding sites within the brain and spinal cord
- 3: Morphine binding within the reward pathway
- 4: Opiates binding to opiate receptors in the nucleus accumbens: increased dopamine release
- 5: Rats self-administer heroin
- 6: Definition of tolerance
- 7: Brain regions mediating the development of morphine tolerance
- 8: Definition of dependence
- 9: Brain regions mediating the development of morphine dependence
- 10: Addiction vs dependence
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