Psychology Neurotransmitters

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Acetylcholine (ACh)

  • enables muscle action, excitatory

  • examples of malfunction - Alzheimer’s disease

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Dopamine

  • influences emotion, inhibitory

  • malfunctions - schizophrenia and parkinson’s disease

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Serotonin

  • affects hunger, sleep onset, inhibitory

  • malfunctions - depression

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Norepinephrine

  • helps control alertness and arousal, excitatory

  • undersupply can depress mood

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GABA

  • decreases anxiety

    • inhibitory

  • linked to seizure, tremors, ad insomnia

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Glutamate

  • involved in memory

  • excitatory

  • malfunctions - migraines

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Endorphins

  • inhibits transmission of pain message s

  • oversupply with opioid drugs can suppress the body’s endorphin supply

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Substance P

  • modulation of pain

  • oversupply can lead to chronic pain