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The drug caffeine stimulates the activity in the central nervous system by?
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Does caffeine help wake you up because it stimulates the centeral nervous system?
Yes, because it stimulates your central nevous system, causing you to wake up.
How does coffee stimulate your nervous system?
Coffee contains caffeine, along many other kinds of beverages. Caffeine is a psychoactive drug, meaning that its crosses the blood-brain barrier and acts primarily on the central nervous system. Caffeine stimulates the cortex of your brain, thus heightening the intensity of mental activity. This can result in a temporary feeling of alertness and, in the short term, banishes drowsiness and feelings of fatigue. In short, caffeine from coffee travels through the blood stream to the brain where it stimulates the central nervous system temporarily, thus making one feel more alert.
What caution should those taking CNS stimulates take in regard to caffeine use?
People should avoid taking much caffeine when it is being used as an over-the-counter drug and should consider how much caffeine is being taken in from coffee, tea, chocolate, soft drinks, and other foods that contain caffeine.
Does epinephrine lower heart rate?
No. Caffeine and epinephrine are both stimulants. Caffeine stimulates the Central Nervous System (CNS) while epinephrine (also called adrenaline) stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. These both increase heart rate.
What system stimulates muscle to contract and interprets information from sensory organs?
The central nervous system.
What happens when the sympathetic division of the nervous system is stimulated?
it stimulates the gastrointestinal activity
Can you clarify that caffeine is a stimulant?
Caffeine is the most widely consumed central-nervous-system stimulant.
What drug stimulates or excites the central nervous system in in which drug category?
jo mama
What increases activity in the central nervous system?
stimulants
Is caffeine a vitamin?
No, it is not. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant of the methylxanthine class. It is the world's most widely consumed psychoactive drug.
What can cause slowly activity of the central nervous system?
marijauna
What drug increase the activity of the central nervous system?
Methampthetamines
