Reuptake

Reuptake

The process by which neurotransmitters are removed from the synapse by being "pumped" back into the axon terminals that first released them.

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reuptake

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The process by which neurotransmitters are removed from the synapse by being "pumped" back into the axon terminals that first released them.

reuptake

Health care; Optometry

The process by which terminal buttons of axons will take certain neurotransmitters out of the synapse in order to clean up or to reduce their concentration. Reuptake is inhibited ...

reuptake pump

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The large molecule that actually transports neurotransmitter molecules back into the axon terminals that released them.

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Health care; Cancer treatment

A type of drug that is used to treat depression. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors slow the process by which serotonin (a substance that nerves use to send messages to one ...

dopamine reuptake inhibitors

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Drugs that block the transport of dopamine into axon terminals or into storage vesicles within terminals. Most of the adrenergic uptake inhibitors also inhibit dopamine uptake.

neurotransmitter reuptake inhibitors

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Drugs that inhibit the transport of neurotransmitters into axon terminals or into storage vesicles within terminals. For many transmitters, uptake determines the time course of ...

gene

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Strands of DNA that contain the blueprint of all the molecules that make up our bodies.

nicotine gum, nicotine patch

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

Two methods of delivering small amounts of nicotine into the bodies of people who are addicted to nicotine to help them quit smoking cigarettes by preventing nicotine withdrawal.

acute effects

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The short-term effects of a drug. Acute effects are those that people feel shortly after they ingest a drug and are under its influence (e.g., while they are intoxicated).

localization of function

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A principal of brain organization that states that specific places (circuits) in the brain carry out specific functions.

cerebral cortex

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

The large, deeply folded outer layers of the brain that make our heads so big. The cortex carries out complex perceptual, cognitive, and motor tasks.

thalamus

Health care; Drug rehabilitation

A brain structure that lies between the brain stem and the cortex and acts as a relay to the cortex for almost all sensory inputs and other kinds of information.

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