PC 707 Module 7 Exam 2024

PC 707 Module 7 Exam 2024 What NT causes whole brain arousal, stimulates appetite, and is the neurotransmitter in reinforcement pathways? - Answer ️️ -Norepinephrine What NT is the most basic NT involved in primitive functions? It affects biological drives like sex, anger/rage, coordinates movement, and is involved in emotion and reinforcement pathways? - Answer ️️ -Dopamine What NT is the most ubiquitous NT in the body; it is for all parasympathetic nerves. In the brain, it plays a major role in attention, learning, and memory. Alzheimer's disease is the result of degeneration of cholinergic neurons. - Answer ️️ -Acetylcholine What is involved in sleep/wake cycles, mood, chronic pain, and hunger. There more than 20 different receptors. - Answer ️️ -Serotonin What is the NT that inhibits the transmission from one nerve to the next in the CNS? - Answer ️️ -GABA If there is too much of the NT is can cause pain, anxiety, anorexia, excitability, and insomnia? - Answer ️️ -Norepinephrine If there is too little of this NT it can cause depression, ADD, or ADHD? - Answer ️️ - Norepinephrine What drugs affect norepinephrine? - Answer ️️ -(1) SSRIs (2) tricyclic antidepressants (3) MAOIs If there is too much it can cause psychoses, tourette's syndrome? - Answer ️️ -Dopamine If there is too little of this NT it can cause Parkinson's Disease, ADD, or ADHD? - Answer ️️ - Dopamine What drugs can affect dopamine? - Answer ️️ -(1) antipsychotics (2) L-dopa If there is too much of this NT it can cause delirium/confusion? - Answer ️️ -Acetylcholine If there is too little of this NT it can cause alzheimer's? - Answer ️️ -Acetylcholine What drugs can affect acetylcholine? - Answer ️️ -ACHEIs If there is too much of this NT it can cause sleep-hallucinations? - Answer ️️ -Serotonin If there is too little of this NT it can cause depression, OCD, increased pain sensitivity, and anxiety? - Answer ️️ -Serotonin