CK12 Life Science

• The use of psychoactive drugs can lead to drug abuse or addiction.


• You can make choices that will help keep your nervous system healthy and safe.

Review Questions

1. What is encephalitis?


2. What causes muscle weakness in cerebral palsy?


3. List symptoms of a concussion.


4. Define psychoactive drug and name two examples.


5. List three choices you can make to keep your nervous system healthy.


6. Explain why young people should not take aspirin when they have the flu, which is
   caused by viruses.


7. Compare and contrast tension headaches and migraine headaches.


8. Explain what causes paralysis.


9. Which type of psychoactive drug is caffeine? How does caffeine affect the nervous
   system?


10. How is drug tolerance related to drug overdose?

Further Reading / Supplemental Links

CK12 High SchoolBiology,Chapter 35.

Connie Goldsmith. Meningitis.Twenty First Century Books, 2007.

David Aretha.On the Rocks: Teens and Alcohol.Franklin Watts, 2007.

Roopal Karia. The Why and What of Epilepsy: A Book for Children. and Teens. Pub-
lishAmerica, 2008.

Terry Trueman.Stuck in Neutral. HarperTeen, 2001.

• http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/brain.html


• http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/brain_nervous_system.html


• http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/migraine-headache/DS00120/DSECTION=causes


• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

Vocabulary

cerebral palsy Disease caused by injury to the developing brain early in life that affects
the control of body movements.