Prozac and related drugs appear to work to elevate mood, relieve depression and reduce irritability (at least for some users) by elevating the levels of ________________ available at the synapses.

Suggest whether the following structures are likely to act as cholinergic agonists or not and briefly explain your reasons: A B CF

Narcolepsy is thought to occur from dysfunction of neurons located in the hypothalamus hippocampus thalamus amygdala

The neurotransmitter that (1) is involved in controlling aggression, (2) implicated in depression, anxiety, PTSD (3) sythesized in neurons from tyrosine, and (4) the target of atypical antipsychotic drugs is    serotonin   dopamine   norepinephrine   glutamate

True or False: Neurotransmitters have different shapes.

Why are anticholinergics a potential problem for elderly subjects?

Identify the multiple mechanisms by which a drug can be pro-ergic or anti-ergic at a synapse.

If you knew that a certain patient at the medical clinic was suffering from low levels of dopamine, the most probable diagnosis would be of _________ Parkinson's disease Lou Gherig's disease ALS Multiple sclerosis

I need to know a few things about the process of neurotransmission.  1. In the lectures for my class we discussed sodium and potassium channels and how they open to allow more sodium and so on to increase then later decrease the charge. My questions about this are: Where exactly does this take place? Is this occurring in the axon as the information is being transferred down to the axon terminals or is it only occurring at the site of the presynaptic cleft?  2. Could you give me a break down of the neurotransmitter release process?  These may refer to the same thing but I'm including photos for you to reference what I'm asking about. For the sodium channels, I don't need to know about the types of gates, just the movement and changes in electrical charge.

A victim may experience a(n)_____ prior to a seizure, which may indicate only that something abnormal or unusal.