Mental Health Nursing - Chapter 4

acetylcholine

a neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also triggers muscle contraction

agonist

agranulocytosis

antagonist

basal ganglia

hypnotic

limbic system

lithium

monoamine oxidase (MAO)

neurons

neurotransmitter

chemical used by a neuron to transmit an impulse across a synapse to another cell

plasticity

receptors

synapse

the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron

therapeutic index