* Amino acids are the building blocks of
neurotransmitters and some can cross the blood-brain barrier.
The artificial cell is made from an electricity-conducting plastic and can deliver different kinds of
neurotransmitter.
Hyperexcitability: Excessive activity of a nerve cell or neural system resulting from excessive responsiveness to excitatory
neurotransmitters or reduced responsiveness to inhibitory
neurotransmitters.
Several years ago there were no "pediatric
neurotransmitter diseases." That's not to say that these devastating disorders recently arrived from some alien life form.
Neurotransmitters regulate many different aspects of mood, cognition, and behavior, such as emotional state, reactions to stress, pain, and the physical drives of sleep, appetite, and sexuality.
Neurons respond to the floods of
neurotransmitters by altering their chemical message system.
From oocyte to neuron: do
neurotransmitters function in the same way throughout development?
If you want to know the condition of your body in the future, look at your mind now." Thousands of years before
neurotransmitters were discovered, Ayurveda understood the relationship between mind and body.
Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is an enzyme that reduces
neurotransmitters to their metabolites for excretion, thus providing an essential component of the normal cycle of transmitter production and excretion.
It's a sense that early relapse with subsequent need for escalating doses is more common today with SSRIs than when patients were treated with tricyclic antidepressants and other agents affecting multiple
neurotransmitters.
The pharmacology of all SSRIs is in some ways similar to that of other antidepressants, such as the tricyclic antidepressant compounds (TCAs), which block the reuptake of various
neurotransmitters. However, as the name implies, SSRI drugs are highly selective reuptake inhibitors and have little effect on other
neurotransmitters, such as norepinephrine or dopamine.
There are 30 or 40
neurotransmitters that are used by the ten million cells of the brain.
