Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety. The way you feel while you're awake depends in part on what happens while you're sleeping.
Receptors for the various neurotransmitters are located on both the presynaptic and postsynaptic nerve terminals of the neuron.
Alpha 2 Receptors. Alpha 2 receptors are located on secretory terminals of some postsynaptic adrenergic neurons. When these terminals secrete norepinephrine the neurotransmitter binds with these receptors as well as with adrenergic receptors on the other side of the synapse.