Chapter 3 Neurotransmitters

Question 1

Is Glutamate excitatory or inhibitory?

Answer 1

excitatory

Question 2

What does Glutamate primarily help in?

Answer 2

learning and memory

Question 3

Is Gamma-aminobutryic acid (GABA) inhibitory or excitatory?

Answer 3

inhibitory

Question 4

What neurotransmitter do most anti anxiety drugs mimic?

Answer 4

GABA (Gamma - aminobutyric acid)

Question 5

What is GABA critical for?

Answer 5

learning, movement, and sleep

Question 6

What neurotransmitter is key in the development of epilepsy, insomnia, and depression?

Answer 6

GABA

Question 7

Is Acetylcholine excitatory or inhibitory?

Answer 7

excitatory

Question 8

What does Acetylcholine aid in ?

Answer 8

selective attention, learning and memory, sleep

Question 9

What neurotransmitter deals with seeking out goals to accomplish?

Answer 9

Dopamine

Question 10

Dopamine primarily helps in…

Answer 10

cognition/ decision making and movement

Question 11

What neurotransmitter in lacking in people with Parkinson’s disease?

Answer 11

Dopamine

Question 12

What neurotransmitter deals with mood balance?

Answer 12

Serotonin

Question 13

What does serotonin aid in?

Answer 13

mood, eating, sexual behaviours, sleep, modulatory

Question 14

What are Neuropeptides?

Answer 14

short strings of amino acids that act like NT

Question 15

Difference between neuropeptides and neurotransmitters?

Answer 15

NT’s are more specialized.

e.g hunger, learning, and memory

Question 16

Example of a neuropeptide

Answer 16

endorphins

– pain relief, endogenous opiods

Question 17

What are drugs called if they interact with neurotransmitter systems?

Answer 17

psychoactive drugs

Question 18

What do psychoactive drugs target?

Answer 18

target production, inhibition, availability, signaling of NTs

Question 19

Two types of psychoactive drugs

Answer 19

agonists – mimic actions e.g morphine or prozac

antagonists – inihibt actions, e.g antipsychotics