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Neurotransmitters & Hormones - Coggle Diagram
Neurotransmitters & Hormones
Excitatory
Norepenephrine (NO way! Is that the Terminator)
(Excitatory) Functions: Wakes in an alley (arousal), burning moodring (mood), doesn't know how he got there (memory). Sergeant finds him and yells for him to start at attention (Attention), he is dragged to a classroom (learning) and forced to write a very stressful exam (Stress), which causes his heart to race (blood pressure).
Disorders: Cam in a cat suit (Catecholomine) drags Grumpy the Toad (depression - too little), Tazmanian Devil (mania- too much) and a polar bear (bipolar) in and hands then to the terminator.
Glutamate (Captian Cruch and Honey Bee)
(Excitatory) Functions: Excited Captain Crunch with his grocery list (memory). Upset Honey Bee (amplified emotions). Fan boat with large motor, let's get this thing moving! (movement). Ms Frizel on the fan boat (learning).
Disorders: crashes on shore and turns into many mini captains who destroy the buildings nearby (excessive glutamate causes cell damage and death), The Elmer Fud, Papa Kurt and Micheal J Fox show up also looking for the store (Huntington's, Alzheimers and Parkinson's)
Excititory & Inhibitory
Acetylcholine (ACE Ventura Pet Detective)
Functions: Ace at the body building competition ( Muscle contraction), Courtney show's up and yell's MY GRAVY! and rips the controllers from the body builders heads turning them to jelly (Myasthenia Gravis- muscle weakness disorder). Ace gets the builders back on line and awake (Arousal).He then orders them to stand at attention (attention)
Disorders: Ace hears a rumbling sound coming from under the stage, goes down the stairs sees and ENTER sing and goes into a room with a Rhino (Entrorhinal Cortex). Papa Kurt (Low Acetylcholine = Alzheimers) is in there smoking a pipe chilling as well (Nicotine mimics Acetocholine).
Dopamine (Wouldn't it be Dope to Train a Dragon)
Functions: Hiccup and Toothless, Hiccups mood ring (mood) lights up, Toothless starts diving and twirling in the air (Movement), Hiccup is training toothless using a reward system (reward and motivation). Toothless has been learning many new tricks but not this one (Memory). Toothless falls asleep (sleep) and is falling. Achcorman the news personality (personality) shows up to capture the moment.
Disorders: High in the sky helicopter with Cow on a date is a swearing Hiccup (High Dopamine in Caudate = Tourettes). Goes low, almost falls into Niagra river (Substantia Nigra) and is caught by Micheal J Fox (Low dopamine = Parkinson's) Goes up high again and Dennis the Turtle tries to help (High Dopamine = Schizophrenia).
Inhibitory
Endorphines/Opiod Peptides (Dolphine aka Flipper, I flipping feel good)
(Inhibitory) Functions: Flipper the Dolphine makes everyone feel good, everyone who visits him has a sense of well being and a great sex life.
Disorders: Drug runners dressed as angels (analgesic effects), want to steal him to make the dolphins to make him a drug runner (similar effects to painkillers), without him they are in pain and with him they feel like their floating on cloud 9.
Serotonin (Serotonin Train Station Featuring Will Smith)
(Inhibitory) Function: Burning mood ring (Mood), wakes up (arousal) and is starving (appetite). Eats a disgusting Big Mac and feels ill. In the bathroom stall 1 there is a racoon violating a cat (Sexual activity), then he goes to the next stall and falls asleep (sleep)
Disorders: wakes up and tries to throw up (bulimia), finds Grump the Toad (depression), who jumps in front of the train (suicide). All take all the parts he can and lines then up (OCD). Mounters come with grain (Migraines) to honour Grumpy. Will goes up stairs to the street and look thin (anorexia) and flips Sam's (Autism) hot dog cart, then Dennis the turtle (Schizophrenia) shows up to help Sam.
GABA (Fred Flinstone GABA-DABA-DO)
(Inhibitory) Functions: Moodring burning finger (Mood), wakes up (arousal), cannot find car (memory), steals motorbike (motor control), falls asleep while driving (sleep)
Disorders: Basal Gang shows up and attacks him causing him to lose control and crash, Elmer Fud shows up to help (Degeneration of GABA cells in Basal Ganglia causes motor issues = Huntington's. He's feeling really low from the crash and starts to have seizures and is takes to hospital (low GABA = Seizures), he wander the hospital complaining he cannot sleep (Insomnia). Decideds to leave hospital by hot-wiring and Benz, where he again falls asleep and crashes. (Bento's reduce anxiety and improve sleep by amplifying effects of GABA).
Hormones
Estrogen- produced by the ovaries and adrenals, can influence dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Influence mood, cognition and physiological processes.
Testosterone- produced by testes or ovaries, influence dopamine and serotonin
Cortisol (Stress Hormone- produced by the adrenal gland)- can influence dopamine and serotonin- impact heart rate, blood pressure, blood sugar, suppress immune system
Melatonin- produced by the pineal gland, influence dopamine and serotonin, effected by the amount light and influences sleep
Vasopressin/ Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)- produced by hypothalamus, release by the pituitary, essential to maintaining the body's hydration levels.
Oxytocin- produced by the hypothalamus, released but the pituitary, love hormone, important for socials interactions and attachment.