Ugh, it feels like my sinuses are trying to kill me slowly... I'm trying to work through it, but I'm just barely hanging on here. If something doesn't make any sense whatsoever, please tell me and I'll try to fix it once I'm more coherent
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Basically what wikipedia said was that IPSP is a kind of synaptic potential that makes a postsynaptic neuron less likely to generate an action potential. Big terms aside, to break it down simply, a 'synaptic potential' is basically the 'incoming signal of a neuron' (as explained by wikipedia); I'll explain that later. A post synaptic neoron is a kind of chemical synapse. This is something that will communicate with a body part not part of the nervous system, meaning something like your muscles. Finally, an action potential is bascially a nerve impulse, without it, you can't do anything. So a neuron's job is to transmit these nerve impulses from your brain to all parts of the body.
So I guess to put it simply, IPSP is basically referring to how the nerves that talk to the muscles or some other part of your body will be less likely to be able to send out the first message in telling your brain that it needs to do that thing. Eg. If your muscles need to contract or relax, it'll first send a message to your brain to say it needs to do that and your brain will send back the signal letting them do so. IPSP refers to how you're less likely to be able to contract or relax those muscles because that first signal can't be sent out.... Placing it into context, it might be referring to the blood vessels circulating blood around the body? Uh do I make sense?
Anyway I might be wrong but that's what I got from wikipedia and whatever I learnt back in school ^^" I'm not sure how this may or may not change the translations but I hope it helped!
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