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Ap psychology course and exam description expand all collapse all curricular and resource requirements your course must fulfill these requirements. Once the signal is delivered, excess neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft drift away, are broken down into inactive fragments, or are reabsorbed in a process known as reuptake. Reuptake is the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by the molecular transporter of a presynaptic neuron after it has performed its function of transmitting a neural impulse. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors explains how it works right in its name. As an example, serotonin is a neurotransmitter a chemical messenger.
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