Describe the varied effects of the activation of opiate receptors in the brain
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: There are at least three classes of opiate receptors in brain (mu, delta, and kappa). Activation of these receptors results in analgesia and euphoria.
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A) George Herbert Mead B) Michel Foucault C) Georg Simmel D) Charles Horton Cooley
You are about to start a research project looking into personality variables and their relationship to serotonin. In choosing subjects you are interested in subjects who have a short allele of a serotonin transporter that causes them to have less serotonin in their system, but it’s also likely that this group would be using an SSRI, a group of drugs that reduce serotonin re-uptake. So you are
looing for people high in _____________ who are not currently using an SSRI. a. Extraversion b. Psychoticism c. Anxiety d. Neuroticism