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mesocortical pathway ✔✔executive function: attention, focus, depression nigrostriatal pathway ✔✔from substantia nigra (brainstem) to striatum (muscles): Parkinson's mesolimbic pathway ✔✔... projects to nucleus accumbens (part of limbic system). Pleasure, reward, positive symptoms of schizophrenia: Addiction, gambling Tuberoinfundibular pathway ✔✔regulation of prolactin (acts on pituitary). Hypersexuality in mania Dopamine ✔✔produced in substania nigra and VTA. D2 & D4 receptors most important. Elevated in the mesolimbic pathway associated with pleasure and psychosis. Antispychotics block dopamine. travels through mesocoritcal, mesolimbic, nigrostriatal, and tuberinfundibular pathways Serotonin ✔✔5-HT. produced in raphe nucleus. emotion, impulses, dreams. 5HT2A receptors = atypical antipsychotics. Norepinephrine ✔✔produced in locus coeruleus. arousal and vigilance GABA ✔✔inhibitory. produces calm in conjunction with benzodiazepines. ACTH ✔✔motor control, learning, memory, sleep, an [Show More]
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