Chemicals released from terminal buttons
Conncect to receptors on a cell’s dendrites
Acetylcohline makes you move and remember things
Mysathenia gravis comes from too little
Ya get Alzheimer’s when you don’t got enough
All of its drugs are agonistic like botox or nitcotine
Neurotransmitters, psychoactive drugs
There are many types with specific functions
Let’s learn another one
Glutamate’s learning, memory, and excitatory
All opiates stimulate glutamate
It has really no disorders – except maybe schizophrenia
Dopamine effects movement and reward
Parkinson’s too little, schizophrenia’s too much
Antipsychotics are dopamine agonists
L-dopa is a dopamine predecessor
Cocaine and amphetamines are both dopamine agonists
Dopamine can be used for operant conditioning
Neurotransmitters, psychoactive drugs
There are many types with specific functions
Let’s learn another one
This one makes you moody, alert, or stressed
Without enough of it you could be depressed
Norepinephrine – some antidepressants could be prescribed
Mood and appetite are serotonin
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Helps when too little serotonin depresses you
Or serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
Are another antidepressant you could take
If your serotonin levels in your brain are way too low
If nothing else works you could try LSD – but I wouldn’t recommend that
Neurotransmitters, psychoactive drugs
There are many types with specific functions
Let’s learn another one
GABA is the off button of the body
Have too little you can get Huntington’s disease
Inhibition and movement
Oh, so we have one more neurotransmitter
It regulates pain and runner’s high
They are endorphins
No disorders but could be addicting
Endorphin drugs are all opiates
Now you know neurotransmitters
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