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NT action
Mental Health
Question | Answer |
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Acetylcholine | Physi Effects: Sleep/wake cycle, signals muscles to become active. Relationship: Decreased in Alzheimers and Parkinson's Diseases |
Dopamine | Controls complex movements, cognition, motivation,and pleasure. Reg emotional response. Increased in schizophrenia and mania. Decreased in depression and Parkinson's. |
Norepinephrine | Affects attention, learning, memory, and reg of mood, sleep, and wakefulness. Decreased in depression. Increase in schizophrenia, mania, and anxiety. |
Serotonin | Affects sleep and wakefulness, especially falling asleep. Affects mood and thought processes. Though disorders in schizophrenia. Decreased in depression. Possibly decreased in anxiety and OCD. |
GABA | Amino acid that modulates that modulates other NT. Decreased in anxiety and schizophrenia. |
Glutamate | Amino acid that controls opening of ion channels for calcium, affecting NT. Implicated in schizophrenia, increased in Alzheimers, neurotoxicity results from overexposure to glutamate |