MIT OpenCourseWare
Drugs and the Brain
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- Instructor
- Zak Fallows
- Term
- Spring 2013
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 2 exams · 1 solution · 3 handouts · 34 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare ES.S10 Drugs and the Brain, Spring 2013, Zak Fallows — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Syllabus
Lecture Slides
16 files
- Drugs and the Brain teaser (PPT) Download
- Drugs and the Brain teaser Download
- Week 1 lecture slides Download
- Week 1 lecture slides (PPT) Download
- Week 2 lecture slides Download
- Week 2 lecture slides (PPT) Download
- Week 3 lecture slides Download
- Week 4 lecture slides Download
- Week 5 lecture slides Download
- Week 6 lecture slides Download
- Week 6 lecture slides (PPT) Download
- Week 8 lecture slides Download
- Week 9 lecture slides Download
- Week 10 lecture slides Download
- Week 11 lecture slides Download
- Week 12 lecture slides Download
Handouts
14 files
- Barbiturate doses (XLS) Download
- Dose response curves: Handout 2 Download
- Dose-response curves: Handout 1 Download
- Action potentials Download
- Drug addiction, dopamine, and liking vs. wanting Download
- Alcohol antagonists Download
- Appetite and nausea chart Download
- Instructor's definition of addiction Download
- Two dichotomies Download
- Neurotransmitters mechanisms and antidepressants Download
- Pharmokinetics companion Download
- Psychosis Download
- Schizophrenia Download
- The steps of neural signaling Download
Study Materials
- More Details about the Course Home Page Download
- Neurotransmitters and Drugs chart Download
- Python source code to draw dose-response curve images: drc.py (PY) Download
- Dose-Response Curve Images (ZIP) Download
Quizzes
Other materials from this course
MIT OpenCourseWare, Zak Fallows, ES.S10 Drugs and the Brain, Spring 2013.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Spring 2013 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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