What Effects May a Neurotransmitter Have on the Postsynaptic Membrane?

Question by 2 ears, 1 mouth: What effects may a neurotransmitter have on the postsynaptic membrane?
What is the actual cause of these effects?

Best answer:

Answer by leafsobsessed
different ones have different effects: here’s an interactive site that tells you more detail http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html

however, usually, the neurotransmitter (acetylcholine, eg) binds to receptors on the postsynaptic membrane (on the next cell), opens sodium channels on the membrane of that cell. sodium ions flood in, and the cell depolarizes (excitation) so that spreading activation can occur and the signal from the presynaptic cell is spread to the next one.

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