Although Various Drugs Have Various Actions and Effects Throughout the Central

question 103

Multiple Choice

Although various drugs have various actions and effects throughout the central nervous system,what effect appears to be common across virtually all abused drugs

• A) They are all deactivated in the synapse by acetylcholinesterase. 
• B) They eventually increase activity in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, which is important for the experience of reward. 
• C) They all lead to a suppression of activity in the prefrontal cortex, which makes it more likely that an individual will become physiologically dependent. 
• D) They each have an inhibitory effect on GABA.

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Definitions:

Trials

In probability, the term refers to the execution of an experiment or the number of times an experiment is run.

Poisson Distribution

A statistical distribution showing the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Discrete Probability Distribution

A mathematical function that represents the probabilities of occurrence of different possible outcomes for a discrete random variable.

Skewed To The Right

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or fatter than the left side, indicating that most of the data are concentrated to the left.