Psy 383, Psychoactive drugs, S01
Instructor: Barbara Gordon-Lickey, 229 Huestis, bgl@uoneuro.uoregon.edu.  Office hours: Thurs. 2-3:30 (except April 5).
This is a multidisciplinary course. I will discusses many aspects of psychoactive drugs including neuroscience, pharmacology, medical consequences, behavioral consequences, social consequences, legal consequences, and addiction. The use of drugs in psychiatry will also be an important part of the course.
Course materials will be on the web. You can link from the psych home page or put in the URL directly. URL: darkwing.uoregon.edu/~barbgl/psy383.s01/index.html.
Many of the reading assignments are also on the web. Links are in the syllabus.
View the course home page often because it will contain announcements about additional readings, supplementary materials to help you study, any changes in dates for course events, and lecture outlines. You are responsible for any changes in requirements that are listed on this page.
Text:
McKim, W.A. Drugs and Behavior, Prentice Hall, 1997
Addditional readings will be assigned throughout the term.  Many of the readings are in publications available on the web.  There are links to these in the syllabus.

  Syllabus
  Lectures
  Thought_questions
  study_questions
  guide to reading
  exams

Announcements

  1. A copy of the text is now on reserve.
  2. The files under each link come up in alphabetical order.  If you want to see them in chronological order, click on "last modified".
  3. I will try to put up outlines prior to the class.  BUT they may be modified slightly after the class, so look again.
  4. See the link "guide to reading" for advice on what to get out of the Tenth Special Report to Congress.
  5. The two figures I told you I would scan are now on the lecture link. They are .jpg files.
  6. last year's final is on the exam link
  7. readings for May 18th midterm. The following NIDA readings on cocaine will be covered on the May 18 exam:  prenatal cocaine, cocaine craving, cocaine and D3 receptors, stimulant treatment and drug abuse.  The remaining cocaine readings deal with treatment and will be covered on the final.
  8. Stimulant notes have been edited.  In particular the tolerance section has been modified to be more consistent with text.
  9. Results of both midterms are on the web.  See exam link.
  10. Both forms of the first and second midterms with answers are now posted on the exam link. The correct answers are marked with an asterisk.
  11. Exam weights:  Each midterm will count 29% of the grade.  The final will count 42% of the grade.
  12. The final, with answers starred, is posted on the exam link.

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