6. Neurons Continued

Question 1

What happens when e- travel through the axon and reaches the end?

Answer 1

It triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters

Question 2

What are outside the axon?

Answer 2

Na+ ions

Question 3

What are inside the axon?

Answer 3

K+ ions and proteins (-)

Question 4

What is the charge of the axon?

Answer 4

Negative inside and positive outside

Question 5

What opens the membrane and allows those ions to balance out, activating each other down the line?

Answer 5

Electrical charges

Question 6

What happens when the electrical charges are sent out?

Answer 6

Sodium-potassium pumps are activated to re-separate the Na and K ions

Question 7

How do neurons communicate?

Answer 7

They communicate using frequency signals

Question 8

Depending on the _______ of the signal your body will do what?

Answer 8

Blank: frequency

And my body will release different neurotransmitters

Question 9

NTs only fit into

Answer 9

Certain receptor sites

Question 10

Once receptors have been activated you what?

Answer 10

You experience feelings

Question 11

Once the NTs have bound to the receptors, they are sent back to the og axon in the process called

Answer 11

Reuptake

Question 12

How we can experience certain sensations such as happiness and sadness

Answer 12

Neurotransmitters

Question 13

can mimic euphoria, alertness, and other sensations by acting as a what?

Answer 13

Agonist

Question 14

Are chemicals in drugs that can bind and activate the receptors in the synapses

Answer 14

Agonists

Question 15

What does reuptake show when involved in agonists?

Answer 15

They can overuse and deplete NTs, leaving many feeling worse afterwards

Question 16

Chemicals that bind and DO NOT activate the receptors - sometimes permanently

Answer 16

Antagonists