Know your Transmitter
Regulates mood and processes within the body.
What is serotonin?
Your personal librarian.
What is hippocampus?
Space between neurons.
What is the synaptic cleft/gap?
Neurotransmitter that is a part of your reward system.
What is dopamine?
Natural pain reliever.
What are endorphins?
The nut-sized part of your brain.
What is the amygdala?
Chemical messengers that travel across the synaptic gap from one neuron to another.
What is a neurotransmitter?
A negative stereotype, belief, or attitude towards a person, quality, or circumstance that can lead to them being seen as shameful, disgraced, or different.
What is a stigma?
Primary in memory, learning, and neural plasticity.
What is glutamate?
The part of your brain that stops you from putting tinfoil-wrapped food in the microwave.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
What is inhibitory?
Medication that works by blocking serotonin reuptake process.
What is an SSRI?
The "love hormone."
What is oxytocin?
If you've had a brain injury and can't seem to remember anything or store information, this was likely damaged.
What is the hippocampus?
One is always present and stabilizes your mood, while the other is released when the person feels rewarded.
What is serotonin and dopamine?
A neurochemical associated with allergens, mucus buildup, and inflammatory responces.
What is histamine?
Connected to concentration by regulating brain activity.
What is GABA?
What is the amygdala?
Three ways transmitters are broken down.
What is diffusion, reuptake, and degradation?
The group of neurotransmitters that increase the likelihood of a neuron firing.
What is excitatory?
A treatment for ADHD involves blocking the reuptake of these two neurotransmitters.
What is dopamine and norepinephrine?