Synaptic Transmission

Dendrite picks up message (NT) and sends impulse along through cell body to axons

Action potential arrives at terminal buttons

Synaptic vesicles contain and store NTs. The impulse stimulates the release of the NT.

The NT then diffuses across the synaptic gap and binds to specialised receptors on dendrites of next cell

Once next cell is activated, produces either excitatory and inhabitory affect

Pre-synaptic neuron then takes up and recycles the NT (re-uptake)