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.
NMDA receptors are a specific type of glutamate neurotransmitter receptor that is localized in the membrane of post-synaptic neurons throughout the CNS, but predominantly in the hippocampus, forebrain, basal ganglia, spinal cord and cerebellum.