What’s on the Neurotransmitters poster
A 7-row table: Transmitter · Associated with.
Broad associations, not one-to-one mappings.
- Dopamine — Reward, motivation, movement
- Serotonin — Mood, sleep, appetite
- Noradrenaline — Arousal, attention, fight or flight
- Acetylcholine — Muscle activation, memory
- GABA — The main inhibitory transmitter
- Glutamate — The main excitatory transmitter
- Endorphins — Pain relief, pleasure
The serotonin hypothesis of depression is far weaker than popular accounts suggest. SSRIs work for many people; the mechanism is unresolved.
Questions about the Neurotransmitters poster
- What’s on the Neurotransmitters poster?
- A 7-row table: Transmitter · Associated with. Broad associations, not one-to-one mappings. Dopamine — Reward, motivation, movement; Serotonin — Mood, sleep, appetite; Noradrenaline — Arousal, attention, fight or flight; Acetylcholine — Muscle activation, memory; GABA — The main inhibitory transmitter; Glutamate — The main excitatory transmitter; Endorphins — Pain relief, pleasure. The serotonin hypothesis of depression is far weaker than popular accounts suggest. SSRIs work for many people; the mechanism is unresolved.
- Who is the Neurotransmitters poster for?
- Neurotransmitters belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning biological can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Neurotransmitters poster?
- Most are involved in many functions. Single-transmitter explanations are almost always oversimplified. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Neurotransmitters belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Neurotransmitters?
- Biological Rhythms, Brain Imaging and Brain Structures sit alongside Neurotransmitters in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Biological RhythmsBrain ImagingBrain Structures
- Is the Neurotransmitters poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Neurotransmitters downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Neurotransmitters poster print at?
- Neurotransmitters is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Neurotransmitters loses nothing.Printing guide
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