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wenmo

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When your Aunt Desirae skeptically asks you how a stimulant can slow down and calm a hyperactive child, you try not to be too smug when you answer that stimulants:
 
  A) Act as depressants on hyperactive children
  B) Act to stimulate underactive frontal areas of the brain
  C) Exert placebo effects
  D) Have no such effect

Question 2

Dysfunction in the prefrontal cortex may cause:
 
  a. Depression
  b. Loss of impulse control
  c. Problems making decisions
  d. All of the above



macagnavarro

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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

D



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