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Modulations

modulation --> neuromodulation

alteration in the effectiveness of voltage gated or ligand gated ion channels by changing the characteristics of current flow through the channels. The mechanism is thought to involve second messenger systems.


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... benefit of emotions I can only guess that the next evolutionary pressure would have been to try and control and understand those emotions and that modulations of mid brain activity by the developing forebrain would have given us self awareness and abstract thinking.

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by genovese
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