Neurotransmitters

Functions

100

What does Dopamine do?

Dopamine helps regulate pain and pleasure

200

What does Serotonin do?

Serotonin helps regulate mood, appetite, memory and learning.

300

What does Glutamate do?

Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter that is important to memory

400

What does epinephrine do?

What is excitatory?

What is activates "fight-or-flight" senses?

500

What does GABA do?

Contributes to vision, motor control, and plays a role in the regulation of anxiety

How they do it

100

What causes neurotransmitters to be released?

A signal from another neuron

200

The protective layer of an axon that insulates the electrical message being sent.

What is Myelin or Myelin Sheath?

300

The area between a dendrite and an axon terminal

Synapse 

400

Receives the signals from other neurons

Dendrites

500

The main part of the neuron that holds the nucleus

The cell body or soma

Sympathetic or Parasympathetic

100

The fight or flight response

Sympathetic

200

Rest and digest 

Parasympathetic

300

Increases heart rate and respiration 

Sympathetic

400

Increases digestion, salivation, and arousal 

Parasympathetic 

500

Epinephrine, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine activate this nervous system.

What is Sympathetic?