GABA: my perspective

 

For my depiction of GABA, I choose to do a time lapse drawing. I thought a time lapse would be able to depict the calming/soothing effect of GABA in real time. This is how I picture Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain. I start off drawing color bursts to represent neurons firing. At the end of the video, I smudge all of the colors together to soothe the chaos in the drawing. This is how I believe GABA acts on the neurons in the brain. It inhibits that firing and creates a calmer, less overwhelmed environment.