ES.S10 | Spring 2013 | Undergraduate

Drugs and the Brain

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Recreational Drugs and Neurotransmitters Chart

The HTML version of the chart is more beautiful, and it looks good in a web broswer. 

The PDF version of the chart will look better when printed on paper. 

Guide to the Chart:

The first portion of the chart lists several classes of recreational drugs:

Sedatives (e.g. alcohol)
Stimulants (e.g. cocaine)
Opioids (also known as narcotics, e.g. heroin)
Cannabis
Psychedelics (e.g. LSD)
Dissociative anesthetics (e.g. ketamine)
Deliriants (e.g. scopolamine)
Inhalants (e.g. nitrous oxide)
Other (e.g. caffeine, nicotine, muscimol, and more)

The second portion of the chart lists several neurotransmitters along with key drugs that act on each neurotransmitter.

Dose-Response Curves and Course Home Graphic

More details on the course home graphic (PDF)

Python source code to draw dose-response curve images: drc.py (PY)

Dose-Response Curve Images (ZIP) (This ZIP file contains: 4 .png files.)

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