Okay. For this one, we're going to be matching our neurotransmitters with some of their known effects. So our first effect here is reward processing, and reward processing is associated with dopamine. Right? When we think dopamine, we think about how it makes us happy, makes us feel good, and then our brain processes that as a reward.
So we'll put an 'a' for dopamine. Next up, we have an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, and if we're thinking excitatory it's going to be glutamate. Right? Remember we can always think about MSG and how it excites our taste buds. Glutamate is our major excitatory neurotransmitter.
Next up we have appetite and mood, and if we're thinking about mood it's probably going to be serotonin. Right? We know that serotonin is very implicated in mood disorders like depression. So we'll put 'c' for serotonin. Next, we have our fight or flight response, and if we're thinking about fight or flight we can think about adrenaline, and the scientific name for adrenaline is epinephrine, and norepinephrine works in a very similar way.
So we'll put 'd' there. And then finally, we have the major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and that is going to be GABA. We can always just think about how GABA is the opposite of glutamate. Alright, there you have it. Bye bye.