Anatomy
Which lobe of the brain is responsible for personality characteristics, decision-making, and motor control?
Frontal Lobe
Facilitates muscle contraction, cognition, memory, and autonomic nervous system regulation
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Histidine is decarboxylated to become what?
Histamine
Which types of drugs are prescribed to people with depression?
SSRIs
Which enzyme is responsible for eliminating acetylcholine?
Acetylcholinesterase
Which 2 main structures make up the central nervous system?
Brain and Spinal Cord
The main excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain.
Glutamate
Dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine derive from this amino acid.
Tyrosine
If someone is having an allergic reaction and cannot breathe, what treatment is given?
Epi-Pen
The most common way serotonin is eliminated.
Re-uptake
The myelin sheath, which insulates the axon and causes rapid cell signaling, is made by these cells.
Schwann Cells
Inhibitory neurotransmitter that regulates anxiety, sleep, mood, eating, learning, and memory.
Serotonin
Which enzyme is responsible for the conversion of norepinephrine to epinephrine?
N-methyl-transferase
Excess glutamate in the spinal cord results to this disease.
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
What does "MAO" stand for in the MAO enzyme responsible for breaking down dopamine?
Monoamine Oxidase
What 2 parts of the neuron are where repolarization and depolarization occur (if the signal is large enough)?
Axon and Axon Hillock
If atropine is a muscarinic antagonist, which neurotransmitter does it act on?
Acetylcholine
Which enzyme converts 5-HTP to 5-HT (serotonin)?
Aromatic amino acid decarboxylase
Low levels of GABA result in this disease.
Epilepsy
These types of drugs inhibit serotonin from avoiding re-uptake so it stays longer in the synapse to bind to receptors to activate it.
SSRIs
This calcium sensor protein regulates the flow of transmission by opening/fusing vesicles to allow the release of neurotransmitters across the synaptic cleft.
Synaptotagmin
Caffeine decreases levels of which neurotransmitter in the synapse?
GABA
Which vitamin acts as a coenzyme of GAD in order to decarboxylate glutamate?
PLP
Why is L-Dopa given as a treatment to Parkinson's Disease, rather than pure dopamine?
Dopamine cannot pass through the BBB, but L-Dopa can. L-Dopa is the precursor to dopamine, so it can pass through the BBB and be decarboxylated to become dopamine.
This treatment inhibits the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine in Alzheimer's Disease.
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor