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Stahl's Psychopharmacology Questions and Correct Answers
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Stahl's Psychopharmacology Questions andCorrect Answers
Neurotransmitter
✓ ~~~ Chemical messanger that communicates across synapse
Neuromodulators
✓ ~~~ Diffuse away, affecting more, known as volume transmission
Neurohormone
✓ ~~~ Travel in blood stream, only interact with specialized receptors
Small molecule
✓ ~~~ Contains amino acids and monamines: synthesized axon terminal, vesicles
recycled, moderate AP, reuptake or enzymatic degradation
Neuropeptides
✓ ~~~ Peptide that acts as a neurotransmitter, neuromodulators, or neurohormone,
cell body, requires transport, no recycling vesicles, high AP, diffusion away from
synapse or enzymatic degradation
Amino acids
✓ ~~~ Small molecule, essential component of proteins
Gasotransmitter
, ✓ ~~~ Gas such as NO (ERECTION) that performs a signaling function
Acetylcholine
✓ ~~~ Major small-molecule neurochemical used at the neuromuscular junction
(autonomic nervous system) and in CNS
Brain areas: basal forebrain to hippocampus and amygdala....and brainstem
Movement, learning and memory
Cholinergic
✓ ~~~ Neurons that use ACh as major neurochemical, widely distributed in the brain.
Associated with Alzheimer's
Nicotinic receptors
✓ ~~~ Brief and fast, A postsynaptic receptor that responds to nicotine and
acetylcholine, ionotropic
Muscarinic receptor
✓ ~~~ Responds to acetylcholine and muscarine, hallucinogenic, metabotropic,
response is slow and prolonged, amplified
ChAT
✓ ~~~ Choline plus acetyl are formed using this
AChE
✓ ~~~ Enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine
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