Effects of Alcohol and Drugs
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Objective
I can analyze the short-term and long-term effects of alcohol and drug use on the body and mind.
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Warm-up video
Glucose Guy · 4:19
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
Alcohol slows down the brain's ability to send messages, which can affect movement, judgment, and memory.
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Drugs can trick the brain into releasing too much dopamine, leading to reliance on the drug to feel normal and potentially causing addiction.
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Long-term drug and alcohol use can weaken connections in the brain, shrink the hippocampus, and interfere with the development of the prefrontal cortex, impacting decision-making and memory.
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Practice
10 questions
According to the video, what part of the brain is primarily affected by alcohol, impacting movement, judgment, and memory?
Explain in your own words how drugs can lead to addiction, based on the video's explanation of dopamine.
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Exit ticket
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“Explain one short-term and one long-term effect of alcohol use on the brain, according to the video.”
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