NIDA Offers Free Slide Presentations for Teaching How Drugs Act in the Brain
This slide illustrates how chemical messengers, such as dopamine, transmit information from brain cell to brain cell. The rat in this slide is self-administering cocaine. This slide shows the prefrontal cortex, the nucleus accumbens, and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) - brain structures associated with the rewarding effects of cocaine. Two free public education slide presentations about the brain's response to a variety of drugs are now available from NIDA. The presentations are designed for health care practitioners, teachers, and scientists to use in clinical, community, and high school