Neurotransmitters and Diseases

Serotonin

Manages sleep, appetite, sensory perception, temperature regulation, pain suppression, and mood

Dopamine

Manages voluntary movement, attention, learning, emotion, pleasure, and reward

Acetylcholine

Muscle action, arousal, memory, emotion

Norepinephrine

Learning, memory, dreaming, waking, heart and intestinal activity during stress

GABA

Inhibitory, relieves anxiety

Glutamate

Excitatory, learning and memory, released by most neurons

Nicotine

Mimics Acetylcholine (arousal, memory, attention, muscle action)

Endorphins

Relieve/dampen pain

Morphine

Mimics endorphins

Seritonin (Diseases)

Low levels -> Depression

Dopamine (Diseases)

Low levels -> Parkinson's, High levels -> Schizophrenia

Norepinephrine (Diseases)

Low levels -> Low mood

Glutamate (Diseases)

High levels -> Migraines/seizures

GABA (Diseases)

Abnormal Levels -> Sleep/eating disorder, epilepsy