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Effective treatments for people with serious depression who have not been helped by antidepressant medications have novel ...

Glutamate is what many of the neurons in ... and they regulate serotonin, another chemical in the brain, which scientists have long tied to depression. These more traditional drugs may work ...

Alcohol’s sedative effects are also a result of its effects on the brain chemical glutamate, which is a stimulatory ...

Excitatory synapses are located in confined chemical ... brain, the presynaptic nerve ending contains several tens to a few hundreds of synaptic vesicles filled with the neurotransmitter glutamate.