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Neurotransmitters Flashcards

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Acetylcholine

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Enables muscle action, learning, and memory

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Dopamine

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Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion.
Reward and pleasure centers.
Excess linked to schizophrenia

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Seratonin

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Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal

Under supply linked to depression

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Norepinephrine

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Helps control alertness and arousal

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GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid)

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Inhibitory neurotransmitter

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Glutamate

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Involved in memory

Excitatory neurotransmitter

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