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...nerve endings. When an electrical signal reaches the vesicles, they release their load. The neurotransmitter molecules navigate across the synapse and lock into receptors on the neighboring nerve cell--an action roughly equivalent to flipping on a light switch. The second nerve cell wakes up and sends off a jolt of electricity to pass the message along. Their job completed, the neurotransmitter molecules detach and are ferried back to be reabsorbed or destroyed...
...factors. To begin with, each neurotransmitter can latch onto more than one kind of receptor. As many as 15 distinct receptors have been identified for serotonin alone. And since a given nerve cell may have more or fewer receptors, depending on where in the brain it is located, a jolt of a particular neurotransmitter can generate electrical signals of widely varying strengths. Small wonder, therefore, that serotonin can affect everything from satiety to depression...
Then there are the Wallflowers with "The Difference" and Sugar Ray with "Fly," offering two of the ultimate feel-good songs from the past few months. If you need a jolt of energy, listening to either tune will definitely work. Both have a groove that'll keep your rump shakin' and head bouncin...
...sign that consumers are worried about the world's fisheries could provide the jolt political leaders need. For the past half-century, billions of dollars have been spent by maritime nations to expand their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes...
...Rodman has in Utah; the most heralded acts have been weak performers in the marketplace. Now the Prodigy has arrived in the U.S., and its potent album, The Fat of the Land (Maverick/Mute XL/Warner Bros.), due out July 1, is not far behind. Can the band give electronica the jolt it needs...