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Excitotoxic stress occurs when there is so much glutamate activity that there isn’t enough ATP to keep up with the energy demand of the increased information flow. If this continues for too long without recovery, there’s a problem. The cell is on a death march—forced to work without food or resources to repair the damage. The dendrites begin to shrink back and eventually cause the cell to die.