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neurotransmitters
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| glutamate | excitatory; involved with learning and memory --> hippocampus |
| GABA | inhibitory; inhibits sleep/awake center --> hypothalamus and locus coeruleus |
| glycine | inhibitory; inhibits muscles (focuses on medulla and spinal cord) --> spinal cord |
| norepinephrine | involved in alertness (CNS), in PNS it preps body for sympathetic response (fight/flight) --> prefrontal cortex, sympathetic organs |
| epinephrine | initiates physical movement for fight/flight --> sympathetic organs (PNS) |
| dopamine | involved in motor planning --> basal ganglia (CNS) |
| serotonin | involved in mood (emotions) --> amygdala (CNS) |
| acetylcholine | involved in memory, involved in somatic nervous system (skeletal muscles) and in the parasympathetic organs (PNS) --> hippocampus, somatic, autonomic (ganglia and parasymp. organs) in PNS |
| nitric oxide | signals the release of more NT --> presynaptic neurons |
| neuropeptide | involved in appetite, pain, and blood volume --> appetite (hypothalamus in CNS), kidney for blood volume in PNS |