Today we played the nervous system game and learned how drugs affect the nervous system. Read the following article. Drugs and zzzzzz's - People who take the drug ecstasy are more likely to suffer from a sleeping disorder by Stephen Ornes. How does ectasy affect our nervous system? How can sleep apnea and the changes in nervous system caused by ectasy be related? Monday, March 8, 2010
Affect of Drugs on Nervous System
Today we played the nervous system game and learned how drugs affect the nervous system. Read the following article. Drugs and zzzzzz's - People who take the drug ecstasy are more likely to suffer from a sleeping disorder by Stephen Ornes. How does ectasy affect our nervous system? How can sleep apnea and the changes in nervous system caused by ectasy be related? 
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Ectasy affects our nervous system by the cells transmit singnals that go through the brain and the central nervous system. These neurons make a chemical called serotonin which helps control processes in the human body. It also has to do with peoples mood, appetite and sleep. Sleep apnea and ectasy have the same symptoms that change the nervous system
ReplyDeleteEctasy effects our nervous system because serotonin which is a chemical that neurons make. Serotonin helps control your mood, appitite, and sleep. This effects the nervous system because it isnt getting the right amount of Serotonin, so there for it messes with someones sleep. Ectasy and Sleep Apena can be related because Apena is a temporary suspension of breathing occurring repeatedly during sleep. Ectasy is a drug that has an effect like your really happy, like when somone hasn't gotten enough sleep. These two things are both related to sleeping patterns and one happens naturally and another happens from the usage of Ectasy.
ReplyDeleteThis study led by Una McCann showed that ecstasy may be a leading cause to sleep apnea, which is a stop in breath during sleep causing one to gasp for air. Sleep apnea and ecstay show a surprising correlation, the more one has used ecstasy, the more severe their symptoms of sleep apnea are. The researchers displayed this connection but could not prove ecstasy causes sleep apnea. It is possible the connection is made by neurons of the central nervous system. These neurons make a chemical called serotonin which controls sleep and other functions. Studies show that ecstasy harms these neurons effecting the users ability to sleep soundly.
ReplyDeleteEctasy is one of the most life-threatening drugs used by younger people today. Ectasy affects our nervous system by speeding it up and as well as a mood enhancer, which can make the person happy and calm or relaxed. The taking of any drug can be effective towards anyone, depending on size, weight, health, dosage, and any other traits. If the user has hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, epilepsy, mental illness, or panic, they should avoid taking ectasy. If you take too much of this drug, it can result of high blood pressure, extremely high body temperatures, hallucinations, fast heartbeat, breathing problems, and even death.
ReplyDeleteUna McCann led a study that showed how the synthetic drug ecstasy may be a leading cause of sleep apnea in drug users. Sleep apnea is a condition that happens when the throat muscles become so relaxed that they block the airway, causing a stop in breathing when asleep. The study showed that the people who used ecstasy at least thirty times or more were one hundred percent more likely to develop worse sleep apnea than a person whom has never taken the drug at all. The possible connection between ecstasy and sleep apnea has to do with serotonin producing neurons. Serotonin is a chemical that helps control bodily functions such as mood, appetite, and sleep. The study found that the drug ecstasy may be interfering or harming the neurons that produce serotonin, negatively affecting the user's sleeping ability.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy is a drug that affects the nervous system that and creates a large high. The use of ecstasy affects nerve cells that create seratonin. Seratonin is a chemical that controls mood and sleep. Studies show that the more ecstasy one has used, the less seratonin their body contains. This seratonin defficiency can cause sleep apnea, a condition where a person cannot breath properly in their sleep. ALthough the exact connection is unknown, sleep apnea does show a direct correlation to the use of ecstasy. Researchers think that the seratonin levels altered by ecstasy can also alter sleeping patterns.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy is a drug that causes the Asophagus to get to relaxed when your asleep. Then you wont be breathing so you will start gasping for air and have lots of trouble sleeping. This is caused because the Seratonin chemical which controls mood and sleep depletes and thus causes sleep apnea.
ReplyDeleteDrugs can greatly affect the nervous system. Ecstacy is one of them infact, it causes you to go into "high" mode. It creates seratonin in your nerve cells which controls mood swings and sleeping. When someone has used too much ecstacy, their bodies seratonin levels are low. This can cause a disease in which you cant breathe properly in your sleep called sleep apnea. Even though the connection has not yet been discovered, it is clear that it has some type of relation.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy creates seratonin in your cells which control your mood swings and sleeping patterns. Ecstasy can also make you very happy that like getting "high". Sleep apnea is when your throat muscles get too relaxed therefore you cant breathe and you have to gasp for air. The study that was done showed that people who have taken ecstasy thirty times or more were more likely to get sleep apnea rather than someone who hasn't taken ecstasy.Sleep apnea and ecstasy are probably related but it hasn't been totally confirmed yet there is somewhat of a connection going on here.
ReplyDeleteThis article discussed the correlation between sleep apnea and ecstasy use. Individuals who take the drug ecstasy are more likely to have more severe sleep apnea than those who don't take it. Research shows that ecstacy destroys neurons that make the the chemical serotonin. This chemical helps people sleep and control their moods.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy affects your body in a negative way by taking away serotonin in your cells which controls sleep, appetite, and mood. So by taking ecstasy your cells don't have the right amount of serotonin. Sigrid Veasey,who works at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that in dogs when their serotonin is blocked off they suffer from worse sleep than a dog with normal serotonin. Also many scientists found that the more people who have take ecstasy were more likely to have sleep apnea problems.
ReplyDeleteThe drug ecstacy has been shown to block the chemical serotonin, which is released by some neurons. The chemical contributes to mood, hunger, and sleep. When a study was created that compared sleep apnea in ecstacy-users and non ecstacy-users, it showed that "severe sleep apnea" was higher in ecstacy-users. Although the study did not prove that ecstacy use causes sleep apnea, it did show the two are corellated.
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ReplyDeleteA new study shows that people who regularly take Ecstasy - the illegal drug that gives people a feeling of great happiness or well-being while they’re high - are more prone to experience sleep apnea than people who have never taken the drug. Sleep apnea happens when the muscles in the throat become too relaxed and end up blocking the airway. Though Ecstasy use and sleep apnea seem to be correlated, researchers haven’t yet shown that Ecstasy actually causes sleep apnea. But if sleep apnea were to be triggered by Ecstasy, the connection may lie in neurons. This is because past studies have proposed that Ecstasy hurts the neurons that produce serotonin - a chemical that controls many processes in the human body such as mood and sleep. This therefore implies that people taking the drug may not be getting enough of the serotonin needed for necessary sleep function.
Ecstasy is an illegal drug that was tested to see if it has a connection to sleep apnea. The connecction shown by this experiment is called correlation. This drug is higly dangerous. According to Una McCann, the more times that you use this drug and the more frequently, the more severe your sleep apnea can get. Sleep apnea is when a person is sleeping and they loose their breath and end up gasping for air, which can result in them waking up and not sleeping well. There can be mild sleep apnea with people who havent ever used the drug ecstasy but the people who have used the drug can get it to the point that it is life threatening.
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The drug ecstasy is an illegal substance which may make you feel great while you're high, but may have side effects such as trouble breathing when you sleep. This is also known as sleep apnea. When you have sleep apnea, you can get headaches, low energy, drowsiness and can even lead to stroke and heart disease. This study was lead by Una McCann and she went about this by taking two groups of people and observing their sleeping habits. One group had never used ecstasy, the other group had used it at least 30 times but had not used it within two weeks of the experiment. They discovered that the mild cases of sleep apnea were very similar between both groups, but the ecstasy user group had very severe cases and they also came to a conclusion that the more times you use ecstasy, the worse sleep apnea you are prone to.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy often leaves people feeling happy and great while they are high, however, people who use this drug are more likely to to have trouble breathing at night when they are sleeping. This is a disorder call Sleep Apnea. If the sleep apnea can be blamed on ecstasy, the connection is through the neurons. Some neurons create a chemical called serotonin. Serotonin helps control processes in the body such as mood, appetite, and sleep. Ecstasy may be harmful to the neurons that make the serotonin, which means that people may not be getting all of the serotonin they need.
ReplyDeleteWhen the drug ecstacy is used, nerve cells that create seratonin are affected. Seratonin is a chemical that controls both a person's mood and their air intake when they sleep. The latter is sleep apnea, in which one would stop breathing naturally in their sleep forcing large gasps of air. Ecstacy affects seratonin, which affects sleep, thus leading scientists to establish the connection. By affecting those cells, ecstacy could be reponsible for changes within the nervous system (if caused by those same cells).
ReplyDeleteSome drugs with depressant properties on the peripheral nervous system have been examined for depressant effects on the reticular activating system of the cat. Large doses of nicotine, or of the anti-nicotinic agents dihydro-β-erythroidine and mecamylamine, failed to depress the reticular activating system; non-quaternary drugs with anti-muscarinic properties, such as atropine and hyoscine, depressed it readily. Hyoscine was the most potent depressant tested and its effects could be antagonized by physostigmine. In contradistinction, depression of the reticular activating system with pentobarbitone was not antagonized by physostigmine.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy is an illegal drug that people take. They people who take it say that they experience happiness and feel like they are high. The people who take this drug could be having trouble breathing when they are sleeping. This sleeping disorder is called Sleep anepa. It can cause headaches, make them sleepy, loss of energy, and possibly stroke and heart disease. This disorder happens because the throat muscles become relaxed and block the airway. But Sleep anepa is rare, but whoever has it has either a very severe type of a more mild one. Ecstasy could be blamed for messing with the nervous system.
ReplyDeleteThe drug Ecstasy is illegal and it’s affects the nervous system. This drug was tested on sleep apnea patients, which is when it becomes difficult to breath while sleeping. Ecstasy affects the nerve cells that make Serotonin. Serotonin controls peoples mood, and their different levels of sleep. The researchers tested the connection, they couldn’t prove that Ecstasy causes sleep apnea. The connection could be made by neurons from the central nervous system. Ecstasy can also result in the following:+ high body temperatures, high blood pressure, fast heartbeat, hallucinations, and breathing problems.
ReplyDeleteEcstasy is an illegal drug that can cause sleep apnea. Ecstasy gives the user a temporary feeling of happiness but the aftereffects are the opposite! Sleep apnea is when the muscles in the throat become relaxed which makes it hard to breathe while asleep. Ecstasy may affect the production of serotonin which controls sleep. This could be the connection between ecstasy and sleep apnea.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to see the dramatic sleeping pattern change in people who used Ecstasy and the people who didn't. People who took Ecstasy found it hard to breathe when they sleep. They were expieriencing sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is when a person stops breathing while sleeping and has to gasp for air continually. Ecstasy changes nerve cells that makes Serotonin. Serotonin also controls a persons level of sleep, and that could be the reason why they were experiencing sleep apnea.
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