Neurotransmitters

Question 1

Acetylcholine (ACH)

Answer 1

# motor control over muscles
# attention, learning,sleeping, memory
# Alzheimer's disease is associated with a lack of ACH

Question 2

Serotonin

Answer 2

#calms down, relax, sleep
#mood disorder, anxiety
#impulsive issues
#aggression

Question 3

Dopamine

Answer 3

#Reward pathway
#sex, gambling, eating when hungry, drinking when thirsty
#motor control of voluntary muscles
# Too high level - Schizophrenic( seeing someone, a feeling that you are being watched)
# Too low- Parkinson ( motor control)

Question 4

Endorphins( Runners’s High)

Answer 4

• Pain reduction
• Floating calm
• Triggered by opium,heroin,morphine
• Respiration slows
• Hunger regulation:weight suppression
• Sexual Pleasure
• Runner’s high: addictive to exercises
• Plays a role in post-patrum depression