Neurotransmitter
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Glutamate, the major excitatory
neurotransmitter
, plays a central role in mediating nearly all forms of brain function, including learning, memory, cognition, and emotion.
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What's common among these groups of cells is that they all produce the
neurotransmitter
dopamine.
Well, your brain has to do something just like that as well, and we're now beginning to understand and identify brain systems involved in valuation, and one of them includes a
neurotransmitter
system whose cells are located in your brainstem and deliver the chemical dopamine to the rest of your brain.
The other piece of the puzzle is that OCD is associated with low levels of serotonin, a
neurotransmitter
that communicates between brain structures and helps regulate vital processes, such as mood, aggression, impulse control, sleep, appetite, body temperature and pain.
Low levels of serotonin, a
neurotransmitter
connected to arousal, may make depressed individuals less attentive to new information.
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