... types of treatment. (Musto, 2002) As an electrical impulse arrives at the neuron's terminal, the vesicle moves to the neural membrane and releases its load of dopamine into the synaptic cleft, which is the gap where an electrical signal jumps from one neuron to another. The dopamine crosses the gap and binds to receiver sites, or receptors, on the membrane of ... impulse is generated in this neuron, and the "message" continues on. After the dopamine has bound to the receptor, eventually it comes off again and is removed from the synaptic cleft and back into the first neuron by reuptake ...

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... one day be readily available. The Dopamine Hypothesis Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that is either stimulated or prevented from being released by the terminal buttons into the synaptic cleft (the junction between nerve cells) in neurons. Stein and Wise constructed a neuronal model in 1971 to hypothesize what the chemical reasoning behind schizophrenia was. Together, they composed the DBH Model ... ...

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