*Memory, New Learning specific, calmness, controlling movement
*Affected by THC
Glutamate - Answer✔✔-*Memory
*Duck tape of the brain... regenerates and mimics other neurotransmitters to fill the gaps for
the ones that have been damaged
*Anti Convulsant
Dopamine - Answer✔✔-*Pleasure (located in the pleasure pathway)
*every drug mimics or releases dopamine
*cocaine and other stimulates actually block the re-uptake of dopamine so that it increases the
dopamine response
*etoh & opiates enhance dopamine release that would otherwise block/inhibit dopamine
secreting neurons.
*Schizophrenia is noted to be too much dopamine in the brain
*too few dopamines mimic parkinsons
*Affected by all drugs but mostly meth.
Methamphetimine high - Answer✔✔-most resembles schizophrenia
Meth withdrawal - Answer✔✔-mimics parkinsons
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