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Nutrition in Neuroscience Part 2 | Mastering Nutrition #41

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The NMDA Receptor and Its Mechanism of Action

The NMDA receptor has several unique things about it. Glutamate acts on these receptors to allow sodium to come into the cell. That takes the cell headband more negative inside than outside. You reduce the magnitude of the charge differential, and that excites the neuron.

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