The best way to understand what a neurotransmitter does is to see what happens when it is absent or over-present.

2-Minute Neuroscience

Acetylcholine

GABA

Serotonin

Serotonin, Dopamine

Dopamine

Dopamine Disorders

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Full fathom five thy father lies.

 Of his bones are coral made.

 Those are pearls that were his eyes.

 Nothing of him that doth fade,

 But doth suffer a sea-change

 Into something rich and strange.

 Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

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