Neurotransmitter Review
This neurotransmitter influences learning and feelings of pleasure
Dopamine
What is another word for anti-anxiety medications?
Anxiolytics
What is the main function of GABA?
Regulate anxiety
What are the main anxiety disorders?
Panic disorder, Generalized anxiety disorder, phobias
An inhibitory neurotransmitter that is very widely distributed and contributes to motor control, vision, and many other cortical functions. It also regulates anxiety.
GABA
Why is it important to continue to take benzodiazepines until a doctor tells you otherwise?
Because the withdrawal symptoms can be severe
How do benzodiazepines affect GABA?
They enhance its function
What is the most common treatment of anxiety disorders?
A combination of medications and psychotherapy
How many lobes do we have?
4
This neurotransmitter influences our moods
Serotonin
What is the most dangerous complication of benzodiazepines?
They are very addictive
What are some functions of GABA?
Promotes sleep, reduces stress, strengthens immune system, regulates appetite, regulates metabolism
What are the most common forms of therapy used for anxiety disorders?
This lobe is concerned with the understanding of speech
Temporal Lobe
This neurotransmitter is important for attentiveness, emotions, sleeping, dreaming, and learning.
Norepinephrine
Which neurotransmitter do benzodiazepines target?
GABA
What does increasing GABA do to your neurons?
Allows it to inhibit the postsynaptic neuron from firing
How do beta-blockers help with anxiety?
Associated with reasoning, motor skills, higher level cognition, and expressive language
Frontal Lobe
Involved in wakefulness, attentiveness, anger, aggression, sexuality, and thirst, among other things
Acetylcholine
What do benzodiazepines do to your neurons?
They inhibit them from firing
What does GABA stand for?
Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
What are some common symptoms of anxiety?
Restlessness, Irritable, Trouble concentrating, Sleep problems, Tension
The space between two neurons in the brain in which neurotransmitters transmit chemical messages.
Synaptic Gap