Synapses

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  • Created on: 13-12-13 09:41
1 neurone firing quickly
Temporal Summation
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Adding together of more than 1 excitatory simultaneous neorones
Spatial Summation
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Reasons why transmition goes one way
Calcium channels and vesicles with transmitter only at one end
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These will hyperpolarise the post synaptic membrane
Inhibitory Synapses
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An example of inhibitory synapses
Rods and cones in eyes
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Effect of excitatory synapses
Depolarise synaptic membrane
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Contents of the vesicles
Acetylcholine
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Where Acetylcholine joins the post synaptic membrane
Ligin gated ion channels
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Role of synapses
Facilitation
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Adding together of more than 1 excitatory simultaneous neorones

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Spatial Summation

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Reasons why transmition goes one way

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These will hyperpolarise the post synaptic membrane

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An example of inhibitory synapses

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