Effects of Opioids on the Human Brain - Part 1 with Leila Jabour Quiz

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* 1. Please input your personal details below.

First Name

Last Name

Job Title

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* 2. True or False: Teenagers’ frontal cortex and pre-frontal cortex are not fully developed.

True

False

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* 3. True or False: The central nervous system is comprised of the spinal cord and nerves.

True

False

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* 4. When an endorphin binds on an opiate receptor does it enhance or diminish the reward/ feel-good sensation?

Enhances

Diminishes

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* 5. Pain signals travel up the spinal cord and travel first to what part of the brain?

Hippocampus

Occipital Lobe

Thalamus

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* 6. True or False: Opioids are medications that reduce the intensity of the pain signals reaching the brain.

True

False

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* 7. What chemical when released into the body causes pleasure, a sense of reward, and causes us to want to seek more?

Serotonin

Norepinephrine

Dopamine

Oxytocin

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* 8. What drug was created from morphine by adding an acetyl group?

Methamphetamine

Heroine

Hydrocodone

Ibuprofen

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* 9. What part of the brain is responsible for memory formation and retrieval?

Hippocampus

Cerebellum

Frontal cortex

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* 10. What chemical when released into the body causes a feeling of happiness and wellbeing?

Dopamine

Serotonin

Oxytocin

Norepinephrine

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* 11. True or False: Dopamine is released by the VTA (in the midbrain) and sent to the nucleus accumbens where the feeling of reward is triggered.

True

False