Mouse Party

Question 1

What neurotransmitter is affected by alcohol? Does it increase or decrease ?

Answer 1

Glutamate and GABA

Decreases glutamate and increases GABA

Question 2

Meth

Answer 2

Affects dopamine (increases) meth enters dopamine vessels, forcing dope out. Excess dope works in reverse, pumping it out of the cell into synapse and becomes trapped

Overbinds to receptors over stimulating cell

Feel intense pleasure and exhilaration

Question 3

Cocaine

Answer 3

Affects dopamine (increases)

Blocks transporters and dope is traps in synaps, over binds - over stimulating cell (causes transporters to work in reverse)

Fidgety can’t stay still

Question 4

LSD

Answer 4

Affects serotonin (increases then decreases

Excites receptors, exits locus coeruleous

Feeling awake, easily startled

Question 5

Marijuana

Answer 5

Dopamine (increases)

Cannabinoid receptors turn off release of inhibitory neurotransmitters

THC mimics anandamide and binds to cann receptors

Question 6

Heroin

Answer 6

Dopamine (increases)

Neurotransmitter release is shut down

Heroin binds to opiate receptors, dopamine floods synapse- produces immediate feeling of good

Question 7

Ecstasy

Answer 7

Serotonin (increases)

Mimics serotonin, more rapid take up, transported becomes confused and does job in reverse (transports serotonin out of cell) overstimulates cell

Moody, sleepy, hungry