They allow the nervous system to connect to and control other systems of the body. At a chemical synapse, one neuron releases neurotransmitter molecules into a small space (the synaptic cleft) that is ...

Their 87-page chapter does an outstanding job of conjuring up the intellectual development of the synapse field ... a chapter by Tom Südhof on the synaptic cleft. As far as I know, there has ...

Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent continuous stimulation of postsynaptic neurons. There are two types of removal: Re-uptake – the ...

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

Most neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs onto widely spread ... Synaptically evoked EPSP amplitude at the soma is independent of synapse location. Figure 2: The somatic amplitude of ...