PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Reuptake
1 Dec 2020
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Responsible for mobilizing the body during times of stress or danger by rapidly activating glands or organs under its control. Responsible for balancing the sympathetic nervous system and calming down the body following times of stress and/or danger. A chemical messenger developed in the endocrine gland. Endocrine system = closely related to the immune system. Found in the brain and nervous system; carry messages from one neuron to. Paths formed in the brain by neurotransmitters that influence how the another brain works and can influence psychological disorders. Substances that effectively increase the activity of a neurotransmitter by. Substances that effectively decrease or block a neurotransmitter. Substances that produce effects opposite of the neurotransmitter. The process in which a neurotransmitter is quickly broken down and brought back from the synaptic cleft into the same neuron that released it. An excitatory transmitter that turns on many different neurons. A neurotransmitter that greatly influences our behavior and the way we process.
