How Do Hormones And Neurotransmitters Influence The Brain And Behavior?
They are pretty much solely responsible for how we think, what we think, how we feel, what we feel, and what we do. Neurotransmitters are chemicals in the brain that essentially promote and allow the electrical impulses in our brains to travel. All of our neurological responses can be broken down to being simply electrical impulses. In order for an electrical charge to be carried across the brain, it has to travel through something called a synapse. Think of the electrical impulse like a train. Your neurons (the cells in your brain) are the tracks. And the synapses are the railroad switch. They let the pulse either continue on its original path, or divert it somewhere else. Neurotransmitters, among having other functions, are responsible for telling the synapses to activate, to let the pulse go through. If you have something like a mood disorder, or a psychiatric disorder, or if you are a drug addict, then the neurotransmitters will not perform their job correctly, which in turn leads
