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The telephone sends and receives electrical impulses and the brain sends and receives chemical impulses. Theses chemicals are called neurotransmitters. When the neurotransmitter is sent from one nerve another one picks it up. If there are too little of a certain neurotransmitter, the receiving nerve will not register it and it is as if the connection between nerves has been broken...
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If there are too little of a certain neurotransmitter, the receiving nerve will not register it and it is as if the connection between nerves has been broken. A.D.H.D. patients are deficient in creation of a certain neurotransmitter. In some cases the amount of neurotransmitters can be increased over time...
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