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.
A neurotransmitter receptor located in the presynaptic terminal of the same neuron that produces the neurotransmitter. Autoreceptors have a higher affinity for the neurotransmitter than does the postsynaptic receptor, and thus have an autoregulatory function. (aw'tÅ-rÄ-sep'tÅr)