BSCS Development Team

Nancy M. Landes, Principal Investigator
Anne L. Westbrook, Project Director

Debra A. Hannigan, Curriculum Developer
Ann C. Lanari, Research Assistant
Carol Vallee, Project Assistant
Karen Bertollini, Project Assistant
Mary Crist, Project Assistant
Carrie Hamm, Project Assistant
Raphaela Conner, Project Assistant
Barbara Perrin, Production Manager
Ric Bascobert, Editor
Diane Gionfriddo, Photo Research
Lisa Chilberg, Graphic Designer
Sandra Matthews, Evaluator

Videodiscovery, Inc. Development Team

Shaun Taylor, Vice President for Product Development
Michael Bade, Multimedia Producer, Project Director, Videographer
Greg Humes, Assistant Multimedia Producer
Cathy Saum, Graphic Designer
Lucy Flynn Zuccotti, Photo Research
Michele Moore, Assistant to Project Director
Jennifer Hunt, Costumes and Makeup
Mike Commins, Gaffer (Lighting)
Chet McKnight, Sound
Lee Strucker, Script Writer

Advisory Committee

Andrea Baruchin, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Michael Dougherty, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
David Friedman, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Reese Jones, University of California, San Francisco, California
Kathleen Ranwez, Pomona High School, Arvada, Colorado
Cathrine Sasek, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland
Martin Shields, James Caldwell High School, West Caldwell, New Jersey
Susan Wooley, American School Health Association, Kent, Ohio

Writing Team

Mary Ann Cutter, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado
JoAnne Dombrowski, Consultant, Somerton, Arizona
Michael Dougherty, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
David Friedman, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Paula Henderson, Newark High School, Wilmington, Delaware
Laura McNicholas, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
E. Leong Way, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California

Artist

Susan Bartel

Cover Design

Martha Blalock, Medical Arts and Photography Branch, National Institutes of Health

Cover Illustration

Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Design and Layout

Angela Greenwalt, Finer Points Productions

Photo Credits

Carlye Calvin

Videodiscovery, Inc. Administrative Staff

D. Joseph Clark, President
Shaun Taylor, Vice President for Product Development

BSCS Administrative Staff

Carlo Parravano, Chairman, Board of Directors
Rodger W. Bybee, Executive Director
Janet Carlson Powell, Associate Director, Chief Science Education Officer
Larry Satkowiak, Associate Director, Chief Operating Officer

National Institutes of Health

Bruce Fuchs, Office of Science Education
Lucinda Miner, National Institute on Drug Abuse
William Mowczko, Office of Science Education
Cathrine Sasek, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Gloria Seelman, Office of Science Education

Field-test Teachers

Domenica Altieri, Sonora High School, La Habra, California
William Barlow, Preston High School, Kingwood, West Virginia
Gwyn Bush, McNicholas High School, Cincinnati, Ohio
Jennifer Carpio, St. Joseph’s Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
Kathy Cattrell, Crestview High School, Columbiana, Ohio
Aster Chin, Lowell High School, San Francisco, California
Katy Colvin, Fort LeBoeuf High School, Waterford, Pennsylvania
Linda Dizer, Girls Preparatory School, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Karen Emery, Shady Spring High School, Shady Springs, West Virginia
Fran Enright, Evergreen Senior High School, Evergreen, Colorado
Leon Fox, Perry High School, Perry, Iowa
Charlotte Freeman, Girls Preparatory School, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Marian Gonzalez, Lowell High School, San Francisco, California
Paula Henderson, Newark High School, Wilmington, Delaware
Wade Hill, Battle Mountain High School, Minturn, Colorado
John Johnson, Creekview High School, Carrollton, Texas
Karel Lilly, Foshay Learning Center, Los Angeles, California
Marilyn Link, North Carolina School of Science and
Mathematics, Durham, North Carolina
Brian McCarry, Monsignor Bonner High School, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
Glenn Miller, Wheaton High School, Wheaton, Maryland
Tracy Peterson, Hamilton East High School, Hamilton, New Jersey
Kathleen Ranwez, Pomona High School, Arvada, Colorado
Ruth Regent-Smith, Pius XI High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Martin Shields, James Caldwell High School, West Caldwell, New Jersey
Ann Sowd, Jackson High School, Massillon, Ohio
Sandra Sundlof, Wheaton High School, Wheaton, Maryland
Kay Thornton, Perry High School, Perry, Iowa
Linda Wright, Creekview High School, Carrollton, Texas
Lois Wysocki, Radnor High School, Radnor, Pennsylvania

Special Thanks

BSCS and Videodiscovery thank the following individuals for providing resources or reviewing specific activities in this unit:
Dr. William Armstrong, University of Tennessee;
Dr. Richard Cannon, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute;
Dr. Monica Skarulis, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases;
Dr. Michael Phelps, UCLA School of Medicine;
Dr. Johannes Czernin, UCLA School of Medicine;
David Twomey, UCLA School of Medicine; and
Jim Strommer, UCLA School of Medicine.

PET Images

Sanjiv S. Gambhir, M.D., Ph.D.,
UCLA School of Medicine,
Crump Institute for Biological Imaging. Let's Play PET.
Copyright 1998 Regents of the University of California.
Available at http://www.crump.ucla.edu/lpp/clinpetneuro/function.html.

Cover Image Description

The cover shows a positron emission tomography (PET) image of a human brain. Blood flow to a particular brain area, the amygdala, increases when a cocaine addict experiences cravings for the drug. The image, when compared to those taken of nonaddicts, reveals that just eliciting memories of drug abuse in a cocaine addict is sufficient to cause changes in brain activity.