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Komiskey - Addiction
addiction
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Medical
Post-Graduate
02/21/2008

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You have a methamphetamine drug abuser as a patient. he presents with marked decrease in motor reaction and is experiencing memory impairment. what is the main contributor to these symptoms of addiction?
Definition
Dopamine ( metamphetamine abusers have significant decrease in dopamine transporters)
Term
In a patient who is severely stressed and decides to use drugs to decrease his stress, what hormone is being reduced?
Definition
CRF - stress plays a role in initiating drug use guys
Term
Which NT, is involved in reward, pleasure, euphoria, motor function (fine tunning), compulsion, preservation and desicion making?
Definition
Dopamine

Serotinin - mood, memory processing, sleep, cognition
Term
T/F: 2 years after stopping drug abuse some of the dopamine deficits are recovering however the functional deficits persist.
Definition
True
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