The Brain

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The Brain
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What is HomeostasisBodies ability to adapt to
your surroundings
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Facts About the Brain

• The brain controls your behavior.
• The brain processes a huge amount of information.
• Different regions regulate different parts of the
  body
• Drugs affect the Reward System in the Brain

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The Brain is the Bodies Regulator
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What Happens When you Take a Drug
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How Drugs Work

• Almost all drugs change the way the brain works
  by affecting BRAIN TRANSMITTERS or SIGNALS.
• If youre taking medicine to get well its a good
  thing.
• If you take drugs without talking to your doctor
  its a bad thing.

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How Your Brain Talks with your Body
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The Central Nervous System
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When you Abuse Drugs the Brain can Send the
Wrong Signals
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The Effects of Drugs

• Short Term Usage (Temporary)
• Changes Brain Chemistry, and behavior
• Long Term Usage (Permanent)
• Changes brain structure and behavior.

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Remember if You Damage your Brain by Abusing
Drugs it could be Permanent! (NO SMARTER THAN
YOUR DOG)