Readings for Drugs and Behavior

Meyer & Quenzer Chapter 2

Frost, J. L., & Schafer, D. P. 2016. Microglia: architects of the developing nervous system. Trends in cell biology, 26(8), 587-597.

Nutt, D., 2006. GABA A receptors: subtypes, regional distribution, and function. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 2(02), pp.S7-S11.

Langston, J.W., 2017. The MPTP story. Journal of Parkinson's disease, 7(s1), pp.S11-S19.

Lewis, M., 2018. Brain change in addiction as learning, not disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 379(16), pp.1551-1560.

Bergman, H., et al., 1990. Reversal of experimental parkinsonism by lesions of the subthalamic nucleus. Science, 249(4975), pp.1436-1438.

Knierim, J. Online Neuroscience Chapter 4: Basal Ganglia (Govern Medical School, UTHealth)

Blinderman, CD. 2016 Psycho-existential distress in cancer patients: A return to “entheogens.” J Psychopharmacol. Dec;30(12):1205-1206.

Dittrich L. 2016. The Brain That Couldn’t Remember. N.Y. Times Magazine.

Thomas, K. 2016. Costly Drug for Fatal Muscular Disease Wins F.D.A. Approval. N.Y. Times.

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Videos for Drugs and Behavior

Dr. Nora Volkow on Addiction: A Disease of Free Will (APA, 2015)

The Case of the Frozen Addict (NOVA, 1986)

Basal Ganglia - UBC Flexible Neuroanatomy (UBC Medicine, 2014)

Robert Sapolsky: Stress and health : from molecules to societies (National Institutes of Health, 2009)

J. John Mann: Brain Plasticity: The Effects of Antidepressants on Major Depression (BBRF, 2019)