1.3) Neurotransmitter Chart

Acetylcholine (ACh)

Enables muscle action, learning, and memory

Enables muscle action, learning, and memory

Acetylcholine (ACh)

Dopamine

Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion (pleasure and reward)

Influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion (pleasure and reward)

Dopamine

Serotonin

Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal

Affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal

serotonin

norepinephrine

helps control alertness and arousal

helps control alertness and arousal

norepinephrine

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

a major inhibatory neurotransmitter that reduces anxiety/stress in anesthetics

a major inhibitory neurotransmitter that reduces anxiety/stress in anesthestics

GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

Glutamate

a major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory and the sleep/wake cycle

a major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory and the sleep/wake cycle

glutamate

endorphins

influences the perception of pain or pleasure

influences the perception of pain or pleasure

endorphins

Substance P

involved in pain perception and immune response, works with glutamate, pro-inflammatory

involved in pain perception and immune response, works with glutamate, pro-inflammatory

Substance P