The compound is thought to work by reducing the synaptic release of a neurotransmitter called glutamate.
This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right.
These genes are active in creating, reinforcing or modifying synaptic pathways in the brain physical and biochemical changes that occur when we learn something new.