neuromodulator Flashcards

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neuromodulated

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  • influence other neurotransmitters
  • more long lasting
  • don’t release their chemical messages
  • can ahve multiple axon terminals and thus can send multiple messages
  • dopamine and seratonin
  • take long to establish
  • passed through the synapse
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dopamine

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  • voluntary movement, experience of pleasure, motivation, reward-based learning and memory
  • addictive component
  • it is a exitatory neurotransmitter and neuromodulator and it can also be a inhibitory during certain situations
  • substial nigrar produces dopamine
    -metabolic pathway also creates dopamine
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seratonin

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  • modulating neurotransmitters
  • wide range of function
    -stablises mood
  • inhibitory neuromodulator
    balances out dopamine
    sleep wake cycle, ocd and ceratonin syndrome
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