Neurotransmitters:
How antidepressant drugs work:
Three kinds:
= Chemicals secrete in your brain (serotonin)
= It is the ?happy? neurotransmitter!
= Some people lack it:
 ~ Chocolate can help the production of serotonin
 ~ Increases some chemicals in the production of serotonin
Seasonal Affective Disorder (Vitamin D Deficiency):
= Sunlight is important to increase serotonin
= Phototherapy:
 ~ Simultrates sunshine to increase serotonin level.
 ~ Some people need medicine to stop the reuptake of serotonin.
Examples of Behavioral Effects:
Norepinephrine:
ANS Arousal
Excess: Arousal
Deficit: Memory impairment
Depression
Dopamine:
Excess: Involuntary movements
Deficit: Memory + Motor
Impairment
Acetylcholine:
Excess: Motor Impairment
Deficit: Memory Impairment

Seratonin:
Excess: Hallucinations
Deficit: Aggressiveness, sleeplessness, etc.
Endorphins:
Role in learning, memory, pleasure, inhibit pain!
Frontal Lobe:
Right vs. Wrong
Central Importance
Cerebellum:
Lack of balance
(back of your brain)
also involved with learning
Limbic System:
Hypothalamus:
Functional controlling of other glands (especially the pituitary gland)
Sensory perception
Organizes lots of information
Reticular Activating System:
Helps shut-out some stimulation
Medulla
Cerebellum
Pituitary Gland
Corpus Collasum:
Use it for epilepsy to separate brain
Glands in the Body:
Pituitary Gland:
Thyroid Gland
Adrenal Glands (fight/flight response)
Parathyroid (regulating calcium)
Pancreas (controls level of sugar and energy in blood)
Testes in Men (sex hormones)
Ovaries in Women (Sex Hormones)
 
 
 
 
 
 

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