associated with happiness and feeling good, helps regulate mood and fee calm, focused, and emotionally stable, commonly used in drug treatments for depression and anxiety

associated with depression or mood disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder

associated with pleasure and rewards, causes you to feel motivated, satisfied, or excited. People will repeat behaviors that release it because it is an enjoyable feelings, it is responsible for many addictions

associated with addiction because of the pleasurable effects also linked to schizophrenia

associated with Parkinson's disease and depression

plays an important role in your body's fight or flight response, causes your heart rate blood pressure, and breathing to increase

Too Little Neropinepherine

associated with depression and mood disorders

calms and relaxes people, increases sleepiness and decreases anxiety. It calms the nervous system, reducing heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate

can cause somebody to become overly sleepy and sedated, so that normal functions are impaired

can cause somebody to be anxious and cause insomnia

can alleviate pain, lower stress, improve mood,and enhance your sense of well-being. The body releases this when you do pleasurable activities

can lead to the body ignoring signals of pain and risking injury

Too Little Endorphins

can lead to feeling significant pain

with several types of receptors found throughout the central nervous system, its metabolism is important to maintaining optimal levels within the extracellular space. As such, it is important to memory, cognition, and mood regulation.

can overstimulate the brain, producing migraines or epileptic seizures

can lead to insomnia, concentration problems, and mental exhaustion

plays a role in motivation, arousal, attention, learning, and memory and is also involved in promoting REM sleep. It also helps control certain physiological functions such as regulating cardiac contraction and activating muscle action.

Too Much Acetylcholine

can lead to severe muscle spasms

Too Little Acetylcholine

associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia

plays a key role in transmitting pain signals to the brain. When you get hurt, it's released by nerve cells to send pain messages. you feel pain and react to it, It's also involved in other processes like inflammation and regulating mood.

Too Little Substance P

can result in reduced sensitivity to pain

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AP Psych

Neurotransmitters

Question	Answer
Serotonin	associated with happiness and feeling good, helps regulate mood and fee calm, focused, and emotionally stable, commonly used in drug treatments for depression and anxiety
Too Much Serotonin	associated with hallucinations
Too Little Serotonin	associated with depression or mood disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Dopamine	associated with pleasure and rewards, causes you to feel motivated, satisfied, or excited. People will repeat behaviors that release it because it is an enjoyable feelings, it is responsible for many addictions
Too Much Dopamine	associated with addiction because of the pleasurable effects also linked to schizophrenia
To Little Dopamine	associated with Parkinson's disease and depression
Norepinepherine	plays an important role in your body's fight or flight response, causes your heart rate blood pressure, and breathing to increase
Too Much Neropinepherine	associated with anxiety
Too Little Neropinepherine	associated with depression and mood disorders
Gaba	calms and relaxes people, increases sleepiness and decreases anxiety. It calms the nervous system, reducing heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate
Too Much Gaba	can cause somebody to become overly sleepy and sedated, so that normal functions are impaired
Too Little Gaba	can cause somebody to be anxious and cause insomnia
Endorphins	can alleviate pain, lower stress, improve mood,and enhance your sense of well-being. The body releases this when you do pleasurable activities
Too Much Endorphins	can lead to the body ignoring signals of pain and risking injury
Too Little Endorphins	can lead to feeling significant pain
Glutamate	with several types of receptors found throughout the central nervous system, its metabolism is important to maintaining optimal levels within the extracellular space. As such, it is important to memory, cognition, and mood regulation.
Too Much Glutamate	can overstimulate the brain, producing migraines or epileptic seizures
Too Little Glutamate	can lead to insomnia, concentration problems, and mental exhaustion
Acetylcholine	plays a role in motivation, arousal, attention, learning, and memory and is also involved in promoting REM sleep. It also helps control certain physiological functions such as regulating cardiac contraction and activating muscle action.
Too Much Acetylcholine	can lead to severe muscle spasms
Too Little Acetylcholine	associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia
Substance P	plays a key role in transmitting pain signals to the brain. When you get hurt, it's released by nerve cells to send pain messages. you feel pain and react to it, It's also involved in other processes like inflammation and regulating mood.
Too Much Substance P	can lead to chronic pain
Too Little Substance P	can result in reduced sensitivity to pain

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