Released glutamate traverses this space by passive diffusion, and because its target glutamate receptors in the postsynaptic neuron are heavily enriched in specialized membrane structures that are ...

In the extreme case, a very strong input will always make the postsynaptic neuron fire, whereas a very weak input will have no effect. The authors developed a compression algorithm that allowed ...

This results in enough neurotransmitter being diffused across the synaptic cleft to trigger the impulse in the postsynaptic neuron. This process is called summation.

(5) Ions flow into the postsynaptic neuron, which generates an action potential when a threshold level is reached.

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic ... into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a ...