Hormones
Regulates sleep-wake (circadian rhythm)
Melatonin
Provides pain relief, stress reduction, and pleasure
Endorphines
Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and warped perception of reality
Schizophrenia
Executive Function
Frontal lobe
Balance and movement
Cerebellum
Signals hunger and stimulates appetite
Ghrelin
Which neurotransmitter is related to schizophrenia?
Dopamine
Triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event, which causes long-lasting triggers (flashbacks)
PTSD
Emotions (primarily anger and fear)
Amygdala
Processes sound
Temporal Lobe
Triggers the fight/flight response; increases heat rate, blood flow, and energy
Adrenaline
Controls alertness, arousal (fight or flight response), and concentration
Norepinephrine
What is Dissociative Fugue Disorder?
Sudden, unexpected travel away from home, memory loss of one's past, and often the adoption of a new identity.
Processes visual information
Occipital Lobe
Speech Production
Broca's Area
Signals fullness and decreases appetite
Leptin
Inhibits neural transmission to calm the nervous system
GABA
Characterized by uncontrollable, recurring thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions) performed to reduce anxiety.
OCD
Breathing & Heart Beat
Medulla
Routes sensory information
Thalamus
Promotes social bonding and trust; also involved in childbirth and lactation
Oxytocin
Which neurotransmitter is related to depression?
Serotonin
Characterized by severe manic episodes (often requiring hospitalization) and is followed up by depression.
Bipolar 1
Speech Comprehension
Wernicke's Area
Long-term memory processing
Hippocampus