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Excellent presentation of a fascinating subject. It's amazing how brain scanning and digital imaging has revolutionized medicine. To see the physical changes that take place within the brain... See More

Excellent presentation of a fascinating subject. It's amazing how brain scanning and digital imaging has revolutionized medicine. To see the physical changes that take place within the brains of long-term drug users was interesting. I'm very curious to learn what experimental methods they used to detect changes to the chromatin. Are changes found during meiosis? Are the changes passed on to offspring? To what extent, and on which level? The presentation has many informative diagrams of the brain and visuals depicting the mechanisms of neuro-transmission. I would include some of them in a lesson for secondary science students. There are also many linked free resources provided. As a teacher, I'm interested in the impulse-control region of the brain because many of my students have little to no impulse control which disrupts their classroom learning experience.