Episode 126: Depression and Serotonin
The Science of Everything Podcast
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Serotonin and Depression
There are many classes, seven in fact, of serotonin receptors that have been currently identified. A receptor is just a molecule that's present on the cell membrane of a neuron and it responds to particular molecules. When serotonin is around, it will bind you like literally sort of join up together and form a complex with the receptor. And that will then trigger some downstream function. So basically you can think of it as kind of like dominoes falling over. It's a bit more complicated than that but that gives you the idea.
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