PSY 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cimetidine, Sympathetic Nervous System, Ribose
20 Jul 2016
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Placebo effects placebo innocuous substance that has no specific physiological effect; given experimentally to create the control can be procedural (i. e following same procedure but injecting innocuous sub- stance) Sites of drug action most drugs affect synaptic transmission to affect behavior antagonists drug that opposes/inhibits the effects of a certain neurotransmitter on the postsynaptic cell agonists drug that facilitates the effects of a certain neurotransmitter on the postsynaptic cell. Effects on production of neurotransmitters first step is synthesis of neurotransmitter from its precursors controlled by enzymes. Acetylcholine primary neurotransmitter secreted by efferent axons of the cns its release accomplishes all muscular movement. Ach was first neurotransmitter to be discovered because it is found outside the. Lsd lysergic acid diethylamide; stimulates 5-ht2a receptors; produces distor- tions of visual perceptions. Mdma methylenedioxymethamphetamine; noradrenergic and serotoner- gic agonist; has excitatory and hallucinogenic effects; ecstasy .
