Mouse Party: What Drugs Are Doing To Your Brain - Neatorama

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!

This was cool, a little complicated for me though. I think I got the gist of it: drugs = BAD

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Is there anything Dopamine can't do???

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it was interesting, though i wish it explained things more

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As a recovering pothead, those mice made me want to puff once again...

*identifies with all the mice cept for the couched one*

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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.

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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 ;)

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I wanted to see the suicidal and homicidal side effect of antipsycotics and antidepressants :(

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Poor fidgety Cokehead mouse!

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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.

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That's one way to make drugs really boring.

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sweet!

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Tim, I wish more people knew about the sociopathic effects of the cult of Scientology...

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Wow, this is a really cool

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