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Drugs and the Brain

This site provides great animations in a tutorial format. The Learning Object (LO) is a great teaching tool because it gives a comprehensive view of drug interactions in the brain. It shows the information in an organized way to help facilitate learning. It has animations that go along with text and the user can select from 15 different languages. The user can easily choose which drug they want to learn about, and go at the...

Keywords:: drug, drugs, drugs in the brain, drugs and the brain, Neural synapses, neuron, psychoactive drug

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Science and Technology / Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Material Type:: Animation
Date Added to MERLOT:: April 17, 2009
Date Modified in MERLOT:: December 31, 2020
Author:: Jellinek
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Submitter:: Jay Holden
Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website, Flash

Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Languages:: Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch; Flemish, Italian, French, English, Czech, Russian, Germanic (Other)
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: Unknown
Accessibility Information Available:: Unknown
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Mandy Hertel (Faculty)

2 weeks ago

This is an excellent site to use when covering states of consiousness and psychoactive drugs. The animation and brief description helps show drug use impacts on how the brain works, what parts of the brain are impacted, what neurotransmitters are impacted, and consequences. I plan to try this in my next semester and see if it helps students with connecting our neurobiology chapter learning to the above stated concepts. I do as much connecting as possible in every chapter through lecture examples and text images but I hope to see a better connection using this tool. The interactive nature of the resource allows the student to interact with the material in any order they choose and keeps them engaged. Assign the exploration of the material, provide some critical thinking prompts to answer or discuss in small groups and watch students connect the dots!

Time spent reviewing site: 30 min

Jay Holden (Staff)

11 years ago

Overall, this site is outstanding. One of my students referred me to it and I have used in as a Learning Object in my classroom ever since. My students have found it helpful at looking at the synaptic interactions as well.

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Flash required but the LO is very smooth and well designed

Used in course? Yes

Time spent reviewing site: 2 hours