Health Happening
The "No-Brainers" for Physical and Mental Health:
See Neurotransmitters - Pass messages from a nerve cell (neuron) to a target cell for more details.
Used at most fast excitatory synapses in the brain and spinal cord. And also at most synapses that are "modifiable", i.e. capable of increasing or decreasing in strength (thought to be involved in the brain's main memory-storage).
Excessive GLUTAMATE in the synapse can lead to excitoxicity causing cell death. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is commonly added to foods today to fool the brain into thinking the food tastes better by causing neurons to fire excessively ---this so called excitoxicity can cause nerve damage.
MSG - And other forms of neurotoxic free glutamic acid
