synapse

Synapse

...mitter, which binds to receptors facing into the synapse from the post-synaptic cell. The pre-synaptic ne...s elaborate form of junction called an electrical synapse . Signalling across chemical synapses The release of neurotransmitter is triggered by the arri...

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

... passed between two neurons (nerve cells) via a synapse , a small gap between the cells. The neuron that s...ons. Second, pure serotonin would turn on every synapse it reaches, whereas SSRIs only enhance a signal that is already present, but too weak to come thro...

Signal transduction

...his mechanism is found in the receiving cell of a synapse . Signal transduction of transmembrane receptors on change of transmembrane potential An ion channel can also open when the receptor is activated by a change in cell potential , that is, the difference of the electrical charge on both sid...

Neuroscience

...s the operation of neurotransmitters at the synapse ; the biological mechanisms that underlie learning (both declarative learning and motor learning ); how genes contribute to neural development in the embryo and throughout life the operation of relatively simpler neural structures o...

Dendrite

...voltage change that results from stimulation at a synapse may extend both towards and away from the soma. In...articularly those that input only weakly (more at synapse ). This integration is in aspects "temporal" -- involving the summation of stimuli that arrive in ra...