TALKEETNA, Al. (KTUU) - A cat named Stubbs has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for nearly all of his life. It's been that way for more than a decade in the small tourist town that boasts nearly 900 residents.
DAT is an integral membrane protein that removes dopamine from the synaptic cleft and deposits it into surrounding cells, thus terminating the signal of the neurotransmitter. Dopamine underlies several aspects of cognition, including reward, and DAT facilitates regulation of that signal.
Dopamine and Antipsychotics. Both kinds of antipsychotics, the âtypicalâ and newer âatypicalâ type discussed above, are said to block receptors in the brain's âdopamine pathwaysâ in the brainâspecial nerve connections that transmit the neurotransmitter called âdopamineâ from one region of the brain to another.