Question

Answer

1.  In Danger Road, the tokens made driving more difficult. What drug do these tokens represent?

2.  Genes are sections of DNA that contain instructions for making ___________.

3.  List four factors that influence alcohol use.

4.  Match the following functions with the correct brain part on the right:

   a.  planning, thinking, impulse control

   b.  breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, swallowing, vomiting

   c.  balance and coordinated movement

   d.  learning and new memories

   e.  feelings and emotions

____Hippocampus

____Brain Stem

____Cerebellum

____Prefrontal Cortex

____Nucleus Accumbens

5.  The ability of the brain to change in response to a person's thoughts or actions is known as ___________________.

6.  Alcohol can reduce the size of the ____________ and __________, two brain areas that undergo extensive wiring during adolescence.

7.  List three symptoms of alcoholism linked to neuroadaptation.

8. Alcoholism is considered a disease because it causes ____________ and ____________ changes in the brain and other parts of the body.

9. Behavioral therapy and __________ are used to treat alcoholism.

10. Whose DNA is on the Blu Dog beer can from the crash scene?