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NEUROTRANSMITTERS are the brain chemicals that communicate information throughout our brain and body. They relay signals between nerve cells, called "neurons." The brain uses neurotransmitters to tell your heart to beat, your lungs to breathe, and your stomach to digest. They can also affect mood, sleep, concentration, weight, and can cause adverse symptoms when they are out of balance. Neurotransmitter levels can be depleted many ways. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that 86% of Americans have suboptimal neurotransmitter levels. Stress, poor diet, neurotoxins, genetic predisposition, drug (prescription and recreational), alcohol and caffeine usage can cause these levels to be out of optimal range.
There are two kinds of neurotransmitters - INHIBITORY and EXCITATORY. Excitatory neurotransmitters are not necessarily exciting - they are what stimulate the brain. Those that calm the brain and help create balance are called inhibitory. Inhibitory neurotransmitters balance mood and are easily depleted when the excitatory neurotransmitters are overactive.
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∙ 16y agoThe brain has nerves in it that communicate with each other. These are neurotransmitters.
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∙ 16y agoThe role of neurotransmitters is to transmit an impulse across a synapse to another cell.- Nicole
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∙ 13y agoThe primary means of communication between neurons. It is also called the synaptic transmission.
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What function does synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitter?
To send a signal to the next neuron ... across the synapse.
What neurotransmitter might the parietal lobe use and why?
The neurotransmitter used by the parietal lobe is acetylcholine.
Anagonist defininition in human anatomy?
A mimic of a neurotransmitter. Not the exact neurotransmitter, but works in the same way.
Which of these is the neurotransmitter associated with laughter?
Endorphins : "Humor involves the brain's reward system, which mainly uses dopamine as its neurotransmitter."
The effect of a neurotransmitter on the postsynaptic cell occurs when the neurotransmitter?
binds to specific receptors on postsynaptic cell membrane
Function of neurotransmitter?
To transmit a signal between neurons.
A neurotransmitter whose function depends on a second messenger is known as?
A neurotransmitter whose function depends on a second messenger is known as a norepinephrine. It is a hormone that is released by the sympathetic nerves and the adrenal medulla.
Neurotransmitter acetylcholine has a major role in what behavioral function?
Muscle Movement Cognitive functioning
Could intelligence be primarily a matter of having plenty of the right neurotransmitter at the right synapses?
Optimal neurotransmitter function certainly would help a brain reach its full intellectual potential. However, neuronal connections are what hold the data of intelligence in the first place. However optimal neurotransmitter function encourages the new neuronal connections.
What function does synaptic vesicles containing neurotransmitter?
To send a signal to the next neuron ... across the synapse.
Why would a lack of neurotransmitter change the function of the brain?
Yes, signals would not pass between the nerve cells.
How do signal molecules change how a cell will function?
Signal molecules act as a neurotransmitter or a hormone, which both effect how a cell functions.
These lipid molecules may function as retrograde neurotransmitters and allow the postsynaptic neuron to decrease release of neurotransmitter from the presynaptic neuron?
endocannabinoids
What is the medical term meaning neurotransmitter?
neurotransmitter
What are neurotransmitter's?
Reuptake, or re-uptake, is the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neurotransmitter transporter of a pre-synaptic neuron after it has performed its function of transmitting a neural impulse.Reuptake is necessary for normal synaptic physiology because it allows for the recycling of neurotransmitters and regulates the level of neurotransmitter present in the synapse and controls how long a signal resulting from neurotransmitter release lasts. Because neurotransmitters are too large and hydrophilic to diffuse through the membrane, specific transport proteins are necessary for the reabsorption of neurotransmitters. Much research, both biochemical and structural, has been performed to obtain clues about the mechanism of reuptake.
What are Neurotransmitter reuptake?
Reuptake, or re-uptake, is the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neurotransmitter transporter of a pre-synaptic neuron after it has performed its function of transmitting a neural impulse.Reuptake is necessary for normal synaptic physiology because it allows for the recycling of neurotransmitters and regulates the level of neurotransmitter present in the synapse and controls how long a signal resulting from neurotransmitter release lasts. Because neurotransmitters are too large and hydrophilic to diffuse through the membrane, specific transport proteins are necessary for the reabsorption of neurotransmitters. Much research, both biochemical and structural, has been performed to obtain clues about the mechanism of reuptake.
What neurotransmitter acts as a natural opiate?
neurotransmitter are not a natural opite
