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Acetylcholine

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Muscle action, learning, memory. With Alzheimer’s, it’s neurons degenerate.

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Dopamine

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Learning, movement, attention , and emotion. Oversupply can lead to schizophrenia, and undersupply can lead to tremors and Parkinson’s disease.

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Serotonin

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Mood, hunger, sleep, arousal. Undersupply is depression.

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Nonrepineohrine.

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Alertness and arousal. Undersupply is depression.

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GABA

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter. undersupply is tremors. Seizures, and insomnia

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Glutamate

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Excitatory neurotransmitter. Oversupply is migraines or seizures

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Sympathetic nervous system?

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Dilated pupils, accelerated heartbeat, digestion’s is slowed, stomulates glucose from the liver, stimulates epinephrine and nonrepinephrine from adrenal glands, relaxes bladder.

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Parasympathatic

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Pupils contract, slows heartbeat, stimulates digestion, stimulates gallbladder, contracts bladder, blood flow to organs.

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Hypothalamus

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Controls pituitary gland

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Pituitary gland

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Secrets many hormones

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Thyroid

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Metabolism

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Parathyroid

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Regulates calcium

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Adrenal

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Fight or flight

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Pancreas

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Sugar levels

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Medulla

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Respiration, heartbeat, digestion, blood pressure

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Movement, sleep, dreaming, arousal.

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Pins

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Retuicular formation

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Alertness and arousal

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Cerebellum

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Voluntary movements

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Brain stem

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Survival functions

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L’imbus system

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Mood and emotion

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Thalamus

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Senses except smell, sends info to cerebral cortex for processing. Replies info to cerebellum and medulla

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Hypothalamus

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Body temp. Hunger, drinking, sexual functions

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Hippocampus

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Long term mem. Stores memories for locating objects

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Amygdala’s

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Anger agression,emotion and fear

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Frontal lobes

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Speaking, muscle movement, planning, and judgement

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Prefrontal cortex

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Planning, personality, memory storage, decision making

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Primary motor cortex

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Output of voluntary movements

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Broca’s area

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Production of speech

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Temporal lobes

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Auditory processing

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Auditory cortex

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Processes sensory info from ears

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Wernicks area

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Language understanding

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Parietal lobe

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Sensory today and body position

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Somatosensory cortex

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Registers and processes touch, and senses

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Occipital love

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Vision

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Visual cortex

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Processes sensory info from the eyes

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