Mental Health- ch 6

central processing of respiration, heart rate, balance, and blood pressure

• controls inhibitory and excitatory function both by receiving impulses all over the body and relaying them to the cortex
• arousal, wakefulness, consciousness, sleep regulation, and learning

primary source for serotonin (5-HT)

• primary source of norepinephrine 
• instant fear response

major source of dopamine for the brain

• coordinates planning, timing, and patterning of skeletal muscle contraction during movement
• responsible for the storage, retrieval, and use of procedural memory
• involved in recognizing social cues and eases participation in social interactions

• ability to think and plan; regulates emotions and behavior and stability of the personality; inhibits primitive emotional responses
• controls general motor ability and motor aspects of spoken and written word

• comprehends the beliefs, intentions, and perspective of others
• involved in cravings

• sensory function of touch, taste, and temp and the perception of pain
• proprioception 
• regulates the ability to evaluate muscular activity

• complex process of memory, judgment, and learning
• processes the world of sight and sound into meaningful info

vision

• anger, fear, anxiety, pleasure, sorrow, and sexual feelings
• reward center of the brain
• interpretation of smell and visceral reflexes

• coordinates the action of the autonomic nervous system and endocrine system and is involved in the control of emotions
• nurturing behavior and fear conditioning

• critical info processing station 
• regulate the immune system and collating memories

reward center of the brain

• impressions of agreeableness or disagreeableness in response to sensations
• monitors sensory input and acts as a relay station
• pain sensations

• homeostasis
• converts thinking and feeling into hormones 
• helps regulate autonomic nervous system

responsible for circadian rhythms

organize complex patterns of thought and movement under the influence of emotional tone

motor activity, motivation, and reward

• mood and emotional behavior
• soother, constrainer, and anti-impulsive
• decreases person's focus and flow of info 
• allows a person to stop a particular behavior when a person achieves what he needs

• mediating the sympathetic nervous system
• key component of the emergency flight-fight system
• increases attention and decreases pain sensitivity
• enhances memory for stressful and traumatic events

• learning and memory; mood and sleep disorder; emotional regulation, social play, exploration, thermoregulation, water intake, and motor function
• increases the production of nerve growth factor

sexual behavior?

principle inhibitory neurotransmitter that regulates anxiety and influences muscular coordination

• excites neurons and makes them fire
• learning and memory as well as the development and strengthening of synapses

memory, mood, learning, epilepsy, and weight

• anxiety producing
• inhibit food intake in adults

• affect sleep and arousal and are implicated in narcolepsy
• play a role in hunger and satiation, cardiovascular function
• reward and motivation

ability to experience pleasure and protect from pain perception

improves cognition, protects the immune system, decreases cholesterol, promotes bone growth, and serves as an antidepressant

• promotes touching and touching produces more
• decreases cognition and impairs memory

• improves cognition through enhancing the attention and alertness while reducing emotional extremes
• focuses us on the present
• helps us pay attention
• antidote for anxiety and depression

hormone of love

• immunostimulator agent
• regulates sleep-wake cycle and other biological rhythms

inhibits platelet aggregation, vasodilator