Neurotransmitters

Question 1

Serotonin

Answer 1

A neurotransmitter that acts to regulate mood

Question 2

Octopamine

Answer 2

A Neuro hormone that is involved in the fight of flight responce and is closely related with norepinephrine, it is also involved with short-term reinforcement and layered reward signaling

Question 3

Glutamate

Answer 3

An amino acid neurotransmitter than serves as the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system

Question 4

GABA

Answer 4

Gamma Amino Butyric Acid. This neurotransmitter is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system

Question 5

Dopamine

Answer 5

Involved in regulation of skeletal muscle movement through the direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia also involved in motivation and reward pathways within the brain such as the nigrostriatal pathway.

Question 6

Acetylcholine

Answer 6

Primarily involved in skeletal muscle movement at the neuromuscular junction also involved in memory

Question 7

EL av

Answer 7

General internal drive

Question 8

Chat

Answer 8

Drive for cholinergic neurons

Question 9

Vgat

Answer 9

Vesicular GABA transporter makes neurons inhibitory

Question 10

Qpcr

Answer 10

Quantitative PCR as regular PCR is only partially quantitative