{"id":8589,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/noradrenergic_neurotransmitter_system\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:21","slug":"noradrenergic_neurotransmitter_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/noradrenergic_neurotransmitter_system\/","title":{"rendered":"Noradrenergic neurotransmitter system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A system in the brain using the neurotransmitter noradrenaline (norepinephrine) that is based in the mesencephalic reticular activating system and which distributes noradrenaline throughout the brain. &nbsp;This system has a widespread energising influence on brain activity and is closely tied to sustained attention and alerting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"acetylcholine_-ach-\">Acetylcholine (AcH)<\/a>, <a href=\"catecholamines\">Catecholamines<\/a>, <a href=\"entorhinal_cortex\">Entorhinal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"epinephrine_-or_adrenaline-\">Epinephrine (or adrenaline)<\/a>, <a href=\"inhibitory_control\">Inhibitory control<\/a>, <a href=\"locus_coeruleus_-or_ceruleus-\">Locus coeruleus (or ceruleus)<\/a>, <a href=\"mesencephalic_reticular_activating_system\">Mesencephalic reticular activating system<\/a>, <a href=\"motoneuron\">Motoneuron<\/a>, Norepinephrine (or noradrenaline), <a href=\"sustained_attention\">Sustained attention<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A system in the brain using the neurotransmitter noradrenaline (norepinephrine) that is based in the mesencephalic reticular activating system and which distributes noradrenaline throughout the brain. &nbsp;This system has a widespread energising influence on brain activity and is closely tied to sustained attention and alerting.&nbsp; See Acetylcholine (AcH), Catecholamines, Entorhinal cortex, Epinephrine (or adrenaline), Inhibitory &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/noradrenergic_neurotransmitter_system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Noradrenergic neurotransmitter system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}