PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Curare, Anxiolytic, Reuptake

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The synapse: a synapse is a junction between the terminal button of the sending neuron and a portion of the dendritic membrane of the receiving neuron, synapse can occur on the soma or the dendrite. Detail of the synapse: synaptic transmission is the transmission of messages from one neuron to another through a synapse, carried out by neurotransmitters which are released out of the terminal button, chemicals diffuse through synaptic cleft. They attach to the presynaptic membrane and release neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft. They space between the attach to the pre- and postsynaptic presynaptic membrane membranes. It is filled and release with an extracellular neurotransmitter into fluid. the synaptic cleft. Synaptic cleft is the space between the pre- and postsynaptic membranes. Presynaptic membrane is the membrane of the terminal button (the sending cell). Postsynaptic membrane is the membrane of the receiving cell either on the soma or the dendrite.

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