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

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Catecholamines

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

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Mesolimbic

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

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Locus corruleus

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Most cell bodies that produce serotonin in cns are found in

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Raphae nuclei

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The axons and terminals of serotonergic neurons are found

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Mainly in the midbrain pond and medulla

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

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14, metabotropic

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

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

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

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Acetylcholine

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Which type of cholinergic receptor is metabotropic

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Muscarinic

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

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

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