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References

Introduction to The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology Through the Study of Addiction

  1. Loucks-Horsley, S., Love, N., Hewson, P.W., and Stiles, K.E. 1998. Designing professional development for teachers of science and mathematics. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

Implementing the Module

  1. National Research Council. 1996. National science education standards. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Lesson 1: The Brain: What's Going On in There?

  1. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  2. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1997. Mind over matter: The brain's response to drugs. NIH Publication No. 98-3592. Retrieved August 21, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://165.112.78.61/MOM/MOMIndex.html.
  3. Kandel, E.R.1991. Brain and behavior. In E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell (Eds.), Principles of neural science, 3rd edition (pp. 5-17). Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange.
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  5. Crump Institute for Biological Imaging. Let's play PET. Retrieved August 21, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.crump.ucla.edu/lpp/lpphome.html.
  6. Gatley, S.J., and Volkow, N.D. 1998. Addiction and imaging of the living human brain. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 51, 97-108.
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Lesson 2: Neurons, Brain Chemistry, and Neurotransmission

  1. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  2. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1997. Mind over matter: The brain's response to drugs. NIH Publication No. 98-3592. Retrieved August 21, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://165.112.78.61/MOM/MOMIndex.html.
  3. Kandel, E.R. 1991. Nerve cells and behavior. In E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell (Eds.), Principles of neural science, 3rd edition (pp. 18-32). Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange.
  4. Rowland, L.P., Fink, M.E. and Rubin, L. 1991. Cerebrospinal fluid: Blood-brain barrier, brain edema, and hydrocephalus. In E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell (Eds.), Principles of neural science, 3rd edition (pp. 1050-1060). Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange.
  5. Society for Neuroscience. 1999. Blood-brain barrier. Retrieved August 21, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://web.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/blood-brain.html.
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  7. Guyton, A.C., and Hall, J.E. 1996. Organization of the nervous system; basic functions of synapses and transmitter substances. In Textbook of medical physiology, 9th edition (pp. 565-582). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company.
  8. Society for Neuroscience. 1999. The short answer: Definitions for common neuroscience terms. Retrieved September 4, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://apu.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBackgrounders/glossary.htm.

Lesson 3: Drugs Change the Way Neurons Communicate

  1. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  2. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1997. Mind over matter: The brain's response to drugs. NIH Publication No. 98-3592. Retrieved August 21, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://165.112.78.61/MOM/MOMIndex.html.
  3. Kuhn, C., Swarzwelder, S., and Wilson, W. 1998. Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy. New York: W.H. Norton & Company.
  4. Gross de Núñez, G., and Schwartz-Bloom, R.D. 1998. Animated neuroscience and the action of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana in the brain. Princeton, NJ: Films For the Humanities & Sciences.
  5. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Researchers discover function for brain's marijuana-like compound. NIDA News Release. Retrieved September 4, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/MedAdv/99/NR-322.html.
  6. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1998. Methamphetamine abuse and addiction. NIDA Research Report. NIH Publication No. 98-4210. Retrieved September 4, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/ResearchReports/methamph/methamph.html.

Lesson 4: Drug Abuse and Addiction

  1. Steindler, E.M. 1998. ASAM addiction terminology. In Principles of addiction medicine, 2nd edition (pp. 1301-1304). Chevy Chase, MD: American Society of Addiction Medicine.
  2. Kuhn, C., Swarzwelder, S., and Wilson, W. 1998. Buzzed: The straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol to ecstasy. New York: W.H. Norton & Company.
  3. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  4. Childress, A.R., Mozley, P.D., Elgin, W., Fitzgerald, J., Reivich, M., and O'Brien, C.P. 1999. Limbic activation during cue-induced cocaine craving. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 11-18.
  5. Eriksson, P.S., Perfilieva, E., Bjork-Eriksson, T., Alborn, A.M., Nordborg, C., Peterson, D.A., and Gage, F.H. 1998. Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nature Medicine, 4, 1313-1317.
  6. Villemagne, V., Yuan, J., Wong, D.F., Dannals, R.F., Hatzidimitriou, G., Matthews, W.B., Ravert, H.T., Musachio, J., McCann, U.D., and Ricaurte, G.A. 1998. Brain dopamine neurotoxicity in baboons treated with doses of methamphetamine comparable to those recreationally abused by humans: Evidence from [11C]WIN-35,428 positron emission tomography studies and direct in vitro determinations. Journal of Neuroscience, 18, 418-427.
  7. Fischer, C., Hatzidimitriou, G., Wlos, J., Katz, J., and Ricaurte, G. 1995. Reorganization of ascending 5-HT axon projections in animals previously exposed to the recreational drug (+)3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "Ecstasy"). Journal of Neuroscience, 15, 5476-5485.
  8. Volkow, N.D., Hitzemann, R., Wany, G.-J., Fowler, J.S., Wolf, A.P., and Dewey, S.L. 1992. Long-term frontal brain metabolic changes in cocaine abusers. Synapse, 11, 184-190.
  9. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Pain medications. NIDA Infofax. Retrieved November 8, 1999, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/PainMed.html.
  10. Joy, J.E., Watson, S.J., Jr., and Benson, J.A., Jr. (Eds.). 1999. Executive summary, Marijuana and medicine: Assessing the science base. Retrieved September 17, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/marimed/ .
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  12. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Drug abuse and addiction research: 25 years of discovery to advance the health of the public. Retrieved September 8, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/STRC/STRCindex.html.
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  14. National Institutes of Health. 1996. Public health service policy on humane care and use of laboratory animals. Retrieved November 11, 1999, from the World Wide Web: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/olaw/references/phspol.htm.

Lesson 5: Drug Addiction Is a Disease—So What Do We Do about It?

  1. Leshner, A.I. 1997. Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters. Science, 278, 45-47.
  2. O'Brien, C.P., and McLellan, A.T. 1998. Myths about the treatment of addiction. In Principles of addiction medicine, 2nd edition (pp. 309-313). Chevy Chase, MD: American Society of Addiction Medicine.
  3. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Treatment medications. NIDA Infofax. Retrieved September 17, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofax/treatmed.html.
  4. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  5. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Principles of drug addiction treatment: A research-based guide. NIH Publication No. 99-4180. Retrieved September 4, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/PODAT/PODATindex.html.
  6. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Treatment methods. NIDA Infofax. Retrieved September 8, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofax/treatmeth.html.
  7. National Institute on Drug Abuse. 1999. Behavioral change through treatment. NIDA Infofax. Retrieved September 8, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofax/behavchange.html.

Glossary

  1. Friedman, D.P., and Rusche, S. 1999. False messengers: How addictive drugs change the brain. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers.
  2. Society for Neuroscience. 1999. The short answer: Definitions for common neuroscience terms. Retrieved September 30, 2000, from the World Wide Web: http://apu.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBackgrounders/glossary.htm.
  3. Morris, C. (editor). 1999. Academic Press dictionary of science and technology. Academic Press, San Diego.
  4. Brynie, F.H. 1998. 101 questions your brain has asked about itself but couldn't answer until now. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press.

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