Drugs
A molecule that binds specifically to a receptor site of another molecule.
What is a ligand?
This drug enhances GABA, decreases glutamate, and increases dopamine.
What is alcohol?
Theory of emotions that states that the cerebral cortex activates the autonomic nervous system and at the same time it decides on the appropriate emotion we experience.
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
These second-generation antidepressants inhibit reuptake of serotonin.
What are SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)?
Study of the ways in which a drug affects the living organism and the organs of the body.
What is pharmacodynamics?
This drug blocks reuptake of monoamine transmitters.
What is cocaine?
The theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
Treatment for depression in which an electrode is surgically implanted and directed at the cingulate cortex.
What is deep brain stimulation?
A drug that blocks a neurotransmitter or inhibits synaptic neurotransmission.
What is an antagonist?
Tolerance develops in the environment where the drug is administered.
What is conditioned drug tolerance?
This limbic structure governs the fear circuit.
What is the amygdala?
These antidepressants block reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine.
What are classic tricyclics?
A type of receptor that monitors the amount of transmitter release as part of a negative feedback loop.
What are autoreceptors?
The reward pathway.
What is the mesolimbic dopamine pathway?
An "automatic" pathway for emotions that projects directly from the thalamus to the amygdala.
What is the low road?
A less severe form of depression.
What is dysthymia?
More prevalent in men than women, this enzyme breaks down alcohol.
What is alcohol dehydrogenase?
Damage to the prefrontal cortex (no-go system) that may explain addiction.
What is hypofrontality?
Measure of sympathetic nervous system activity.
What is the galvanic skin response?
A less severe form of bipolar disorder.
What is cyclothymia?