Neurotransmitters
This NT is always excitatory at the muscles.
Acetylcholine.
What are the two types of strokes?
Ischemic and hemorrhagic
Addiction triggers the brain's reward pathway. Which NT is released?
Dopamine
The entry of enough Na+ ions causes:
Depolarization
Brain waves of being awake and alert?
Beta
These NTs are considered your body's own naturally occurring (endogenous) opiates.
Endorphins and enkephalins.
Blood clots are a risk factor for which type of stroke?
Ischemic
Which class of antidepressants keep serotonin levels high?
SSRIs
IPSP cause local:
hyperpolarization
Most dreaming occurs in the _____ stage of sleep.
REM
The pain NT
Substance P
What does FAST stand for?
Face, Arms, Speech, Time
Which class of antidepressant drugs target an enzyme that normally breaks down NTs?
MAOIs
Two simultaneous stimuli at different locations can cause ______ summation.
Spacial
Fitting new facts into categories already stored in cerebral cortex is called:
Memory consolidation.
Dopamine
Which medication is used to treat an ischemic stroke?
tPA
Which antidepressant treatment uses small electric currents?
ECT
Two stimuli at the same location that fire one after the other can cause ______ summation.
Temporal
Strenghtening memory synapses is also called:
Long-term potentiation.
The stroke NT
Glutamate
A subarachnoid hemorrhagic stroke could be caused due to?
an aneurysm
Which antidepressant treatment uses magnetic pulses?
TMS
A neural circuit with many inputs and one output:
Converging.
Blocking orexin action is one way to treat