Glutamate functions as the brain's main excitatory signal, enabling nerve cells to send and receive information across synapses. Because synaptic plasticity — the strengthening and weakening of these connections — is the cellular basis of learning, glutamate sits at the biochemical foundation of how memories are encoded. Memory is, at a molecular level, glutamate-driven signal traffic.
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