NEUROBIOLOGY OF DRUG ABUSE--MULTIMEDIA SCIENCE EDUCATION

描述：滥用药物可能是最具破坏性的 今天的美国社会。为了缓解这一问题，预防 教育将需要更容易获得，更有效，因此 NID和其他国家机构提出的目标能够实现。 青少年是人口中的一部分，两者都很高。 物质滥用的危险年龄组，以及b)可以被教育和影响 远离毒品，如果能让他们明白这种破坏 药物滥用将对他们的大脑、他们的生活、他们的家庭造成影响-- 以及他们的社会和文化环境。计算机领域的新创新 技术为年轻人开发软件提供了令人兴奋的可能性 让人们自己去发现这一领域的最新进展 滥用药物。 我们的青少年需要信息和指导。我们将创建一个多媒体 光盘是专门针对高中生的，但对 其他人也是。我们将以一种既 引人入胜，富有教育意义。我们将综合领先的研究成果 物质滥用的神经学和神经生物学研究结果 各种来源，并与神经科学家AS合作 技术顾问，我们将在计算机中传递这些信息- 将掌握的基于多媒体格式的系列电子课程 到一个用户友好的CD-ROM上，并在两个主要的个人计算机上提供 当今美国学校和家庭使用的平台：Macintosh 和PC。 建议的商业应用：不可用

DESCRIPTION: Drug abuse may be the single most destructive element in American society today. In order to alleviate the problem, prevention education will need to be more readily available and more effective so that the goals set forth by NID and other national agencies can be met. Teenagers are the one segment of the population which are both a) high risk age group for substance abuse, and b) can be educated and influenced to stay away from drugs, if they can be made to understand the devastation that drug abuse will wreak on their brains, their live, their families -- and their social and cultural environment. New innovations in computer technology provide exciting possibilities to develop software for young people to discover for themselves the most recent advances in the area of substance abuse. Our teenagers need information and guidance. We will create a multimedia CD-ROM targeted particularly for High School students, but of benefit to others as well. We will provide this information in a way that is both engaging and educational. We will synthesize the leading research findings in the neurology and neurobiology of substance abuse from a variety of sources, and, working in conjunction with neuroscientist as technical consultant, we will deliver this information in a computer- based, multimedia-format series of electronic lesson that will be mastered onto a user-friendly CD-ROM, and delivered on both major personal computer platforms used in schools and homes in the United States today: Macintosh and PC. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE