COURSE:
NU643: Advanced Psychopharmacology
Instructions
Tell a ‘story’ by describing how a neuronal impulse creates a cascade of events to occur within the neuron and between neurons. Imagine that you are explaining how neuronal activation occurs, and what the step-by-step processes are, as you would, to a fellow nurse practitioner that has not specialized in psychiatric nursing but is familiar with medical/biology terminology.
Concepts/words that must be incorporated and explained throughout your ‘story’ includes:
- Neurotransmitter
- Synaptic Cleft
- Receiving Neuron
- Signal Transduction Cascade
- Voltage-gated and Ligand-ion channels
- G-protein-linked Receptor
- Agonist, Partial Agonist, Antagonist, and Inverse Agonist and their Role in Signal Transduction
Please follow the Assignment Rubric. The expected length of the submission is 1-2 pages and include at least three scholarly references in your work.
Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.
SOLUTION
Week 2 Assignment 1: Neurotransmission
Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that carry, boost, and balance signals between different neurons also referred to as nerve cells/target cells in the body. Ideally, neurotransmitters play the role of ligands for different G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), profoundly known for the modulation of neural activity (Kofuji & Araque, 2021).
Neural activation takes place via a highly structured system of neurons. Neurons transmit signals through action potential. According to York et al (2018), the synapse is a form of a neuronal intersection, acting as the tool for transmitting nerve impulses across neurons. This………………..use the purchase button to access the solution at $10