General Neurotransmitter & Anatomy of a Neuron
Dopamine
Acetycholine
Rogers & Kesner
(2003)
(2003)
Prevot
el al (2019)
el al (2019)
100
Where neurotransmitters are found in an inert (not firing) neuron.
What is axon terminal?
100
The type of neurotransmitter that dopamine is.
What is excitatory neurotransmitter?
100
Acetycholine is an exhibitory or inhibitory neurotransmitter?
excitatory
100
Acetycholine affects _____ and _________. (Hint: what are we doing right now?)
learning and spacial memory
100
The study was performed on this animal.
What is mice?
200
The other name for the neuron's "cell body".
What is the soma?
200
A mental health condition that is commonly associated with low levels of dopamine.
What is depression?
200
Acetylcholine is stored in these structures within the presynaptic neuron.
What are synaptic vesicles?
200
This term describes an approach that explains complex phenomena by breaking them into simpler components.
What is reductionist?
200
The brain's ability to adapt and form new connections.
What is neuroplasticity?
300
The scientific name of the process by which synaptic vesicles move out of an axon terminal.
What is exocytosis?
300
What common recreational drug increases dopamine levels in the brain, leading to feelings of euphoria?
What is cocaine?
300
In the cardiovascular system, acetylcholine causes this effect on heart rate.
What is decreasing the heart rate?
300
There is a high concentration of acetycholine receptor cites in this area of the brain.(Hint: mentioned in the presentation)
What is the hippocampus？
300
This study focused on GABA's role in _____ and _______. (2 behaviors. Hint: What are we doing right now?)
What is learning and memory?
400
This ______-gated ______ channel opens and triggers the release of neurotransmitter.
What is a voltage-gated Ca2+ channel?
400
Which hormone, often referred to as the "stress hormone," can inhibit dopamine release when levels are high?
What is cortisol?
400
Drugs that inhibit acetylcholinesterase are used to treat this neurodegenerative disease
What is Alzheimer's disease?
400
Name of the maze the rats had to go through.
What is the Hebb Williams maze?
400
Other than mice, name 2 animals commonly used for research in neuroscience.
Any 2 of: zebrafish, monkeys, nematode, drosophila (fruit fly), cichlid fish, xenopus laevis tadpoles, Aplysia (sea slug)
500
A neuron in its resting state as a voltage of about ____ mV. The threshold of neural firing is about ____ mV. During depolarization, the neuron reaches maximum of about ____ mV voltage.
A neuron in its resting state has a voltage of about -70 mV. The threshold of neural firing is about -55 mV. During depolarization, the neuron reaches a maximum voltage of about +30 mV.
500
What type of drugs work by increasing dopamine levels in the brain?
What are stimulants?
500
Acetycholine communicates primarily between this TYPE of neurons and the CNS.
What are motor neurons?
500
What were the rats injected with? Was it an agonist or an antagonist?
What is scopolamine (antagonist)?
500
The name of the GABA-targeting therapy mentioned in the study.
What is Tiagabine?