Questions

Question 1

I’m the brain, the cell groups labeled a are associated with ____ nts

Answer 1

Catecholamines

Question 2

doüaminerhic cell bodies in the VTA send projections to the nucleus accumbend and the amygdala via the ____ pathway

Answer 2

Mesolimbic

Question 3

The main location of noradrenergic cell bodied in the CNS is the

Answer 3

Locus corruleus

Question 4

Most cell bodies that produce serotonin in cns are found in

Answer 4

Raphae nuclei

Question 5

The axons and terminals of serotonergic neurons are found

Answer 5

Mainly in the midbrain pond and medulla

Question 6

Pharmacologists have identified at least ___ different subtypes for serotonin most of which are ___

Answer 6

14, metabotropic

Question 7

Synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine doesn’t have a rate limiting enzyme as the catecholamines do what prevents too much acetylcholine from building up?

Answer 7

The presence of acetylcholinesterase in the terminal to break down whatever isn’t packaged into vesicles 

Question 8

Which neurotransmitter systems would you expect to be involved when a person who is smoking a cigarette for the first time gets the shakes?

Answer 8

Acetylcholine

Question 9

Which type of cholinergic receptor is metabotropic

Answer 9

Muscarinic

Question 10

The presence of the vesicular glutamate transporters and vesicular monoamines transporters in the same neurons suggests that

Answer 10

Glutamate can he released as a neurotransmitter along with dopamine or serotonin