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Adaptations to drug use - tolerance, anhedonia, and disruptions to homeostasis Agonists - act like a neurotransmitter and does what the drug normally does, but is less risky then the actual substance (done a lot for heroin) Antagonists - block receptors, which make the drug less pleasurable Ante...

_____________ is a better predictor of heart disease than _______________ - HDL ; total cholesterol __________________ are not regulated by the FDA - herbal medicines -brain and spinal chord -Spinal cord receives sensory information from the body & sends it to the brain, and receives motor info...

3 Major systems of stress physiology: - Sympathetic Nervous System- response in seconds HPA Axis- response in minutes Immune System- response in days Acute Sleep Deprivation: - Short-term... Impaired cognition Increased risk of accidents Adaptations to drug use: - Tolerance Disruptions to hom...

4 chambers of the heart - left atria, right atria, left ventricle, right ventricle Action Potentials - signals that allow electrical signaling within the neuron Alexander Flemming - discovered antibacterial effects of penicillin allele - one of two or more different forms of a gene Amygdala - co...

Acquired Immune System - The recognition of "non-self" cells in the presence of "self" Acute Phase Response - The body's nonspecific response triggered by the hypothalamus. Symptoms include fever, inflammation, reduced activity and food intake, increased sensitivity to pain, disrupted memory...

3 Types of blood vessels: - Arteries: carry blood away from the heart Veins: carry blood towards the heart Capillaries: Very tiny branches of blood vessels that branch into bodily tissues a mechanism for explaining gene x environment interactions - Epigenetics A reason why experiments must be re...

____________ is the phase of the cardiac cycle where the ventricles of the heart contract, pushing blood from the heart into the arteries. Blood pressure during this phase is generally higher. - systole A ___________ is a research design that, by definition, involves simply describing a small grou...