Transcript Endocannabinoids help us to learn.

Johns Hopkins University
What is your nervous system?
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I was
misquoted!!!
Albert Einstein
I didn’t
mean it!!!
Karl Lashley
That’s not
my brain
...is it?
“Use it or Lose it”
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Your brain is the most metabolically
active part of your body.
Studying 2 ½ hours for an
exam burns 305 calories.
Running a 12 minute mile
burns 264 calories.
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3 kinds of cones
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2 kinds of cones
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2 kinds of cones
..but not a lot
1 kind of cone
The X chromosome codes
for the M and L cones.
There is more color blindness
in men than women.
Normal Brain
Brain on Drugs
Brain without Drugs
Brain on Drugs
•Diseases have symptoms
•Symptom – CRAVING - compulsion to use the drug
(Psychological Dependence)
R = 0.38
Ability to adapt to the environment…need your cortex.
Affection
Embarrassment
•Cross cultural
•Paralinguistic
Rosenzweig M.R. et al., Biological Psychology (2005)
Neil Carlson, Physiology of Behavior, 2001.
Kandel, Schwartz, Jessel. Principles of Neural Science, 2000
Endocannabinoids
•Endorphins
•Enkephalins
•Dynorphins
•Nocioceptin
•Endomorphins
Allopregnanolone
Hey…quiet down
I am trying to
learn.
Endocannabinoids help us to learn.
Quiet….I am
trying to sleep.
There are a number of chemicals in chocolate
that activates your reward pathway.
There is a chemical in chocolate –
theobromine - that dogs can not
digest.
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