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PLease provide positive feedback for my classmate’s post about foundational neuroscience. Post attached below.

PLease provide positive feedback for my classmate’s post about foundational neuroscience. Post attached below. Thank you!*************************************************************************Agonist-to-Antagonist Spectrum
            According to Kowalski et al. (2017), an agonist psychopharmacologic agent is one that binds to a target receptor that can generate an alike or similar response to the intended chemical and receptor. An antagonist psychopharmacologic agent is one that is opposite to the agonist psychopharmacologic agent. It also binds to a receptor. However, it prevents the receptor from generating a desired response. A partial agonist psychopharmacologic agent is one that binds to a target receptor the same as a full agonist. However, it does not activate the receptor to the same extent. In terms of efficacy of psychopharmacologic treatments, a partial agonist psychopharmacologic agent has a lower intrinsic efficacy than a full agonist. This in turn results in a reduced maximum response of the partial psychopharmacologic agent. The partial agonist can also act as an antagonist by competing with a full agonist for receptor binding. Kowalski also mentions that an inverse agonist psychopharmacologic agent binds to the same receptors as the agonist. However, the response will be opposite of the agonist response. For instance, if a medication is an agonist and it causes sleepiness in a patient, the inverse agonist medication will cause wakefulness in the patient by selectively binding to the inactive state of the receptor and reversing active receptors.
 
G Couple Proteins and Ion Gated Channels
            According to Møller et al. (2017), g couple protein receptors bind to a partner heterotrimeric G protein. Heterotrimeric means that they have three different subunits: alpha, beta, and gamma. This promotes exchange of guanosine triphosphate (GTP) active for guanosine diphosphate (GDP) inactive, causing the activation of all downstream signaling. Neurotransmitters trigger the g couple receptors at any of its seven transmembrane regions. Which are binding sites for the neurotransmitters. According to Dämgen