Mouse Party: What Drugs Are Doing To Your Brain

What happens to your brain when you take drugs? University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center invites you to find out, by using some party lovin’ mice!

The university’s interactive Flash feature, called Mouse Party, gives you a glimpse into the chemical interactions at the synaptic level that cause drug users to feel "high."

Link [Flash] - Thanks Jon Jason!

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January 31, 2008 at 8:37 pm by Alex
Category: Medicine

15 comments to "Mouse Party: What Drugs Are Doing To Your Brain"

Tom
January 31st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
This was cool, a little complicated for me though. I think I got the gist of it: drugs = BAD
VonSkippy
January 31st, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Is there anything Dopamine can’t do???
meghan
January 31st, 2008 at 11:00 pm
it was interesting, though i wish it explained things more
NiteWhite
January 31st, 2008 at 11:03 pm
As a recovering pothead, those mice made me want to puff once again…

*identifies with all the mice cept for the couched one*
NeuroGirl
January 31st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Cute. Neurobiologically accurate. They even differentiated between channels and G-protein linked receptor proteins. It does support the theory that lab people have very strange ways of expressing creativity.
hypotheek
February 1st, 2008 at 5:14 am
it sounds very interesting, though i wish it explained more about this topic. Looking at myself, im clean of all, but some friends of mine arent so im sending the link to them
Tim
February 1st, 2008 at 8:05 am
I wanted to see the suicidal and homicidal side effect of antipsycotics and antidepressants
Rosi
February 1st, 2008 at 1:05 pm
This video makes me wish that I knew what dopamine and seratonin was… I barely can remember what a synapse is.
And is it wrong that I want to adopt one of those mice?
Reed
February 1st, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Fun, but I wish they had gone into a bit more detail, they only cover a few different facts about each receptor.

I also wish they’d done caffeine.
sickb*stard
February 1st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
If I had known that drugged up mice have little parties and rock out to music like that, I would definitely have lived my teen years differently.
Tony LaRocca
February 1st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Poor fidgety Cokehead mouse!
Ali S.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Wow, this is a really cool, entertaining and most importantly educating flash. I do hope they do a flash about common drugs like caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes.
ted
February 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
That’s one way to make drugs really boring.
su.wei
February 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 am
sweet!
Colin
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Tim, I wish more people knew about the sociopathic effects of the cult of Scientology…

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