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Efforts to characterize its detailed molecular organization are encumbered by the large variability of the abundance of its constituent proteins both spatially, in different brain areas, and temporally, during development, circadian rhythm, and also in response to various stimuli. In this study we ran large-scale stochastic simulations of protein binding events to predict the presence and distribution of PSD complexes. We simulated the interactions of seven major PSD proteins (NMDAR, AMPAR, PSD-95, SynGAP, GKAP, Shank3, Homer1) based on previously published, experimentally determined protein abundance data from 22 different brain areas and 42 patients (altogether 524 different simulations). Our results demonstrate that the relative ratio of the emerging protein complexes can be sensitive to even subtle changes in protein abundances and thus explicit simulations are invaluable to understand the relationships between protein availability and complex formation. Our observations are compatible with a scenario where larger supercomplexes are formed from available smaller binary and ternary associations of PSD proteins. Specifically, Homer1 and Shank3 self-association reactions substantially promote the emergence of very large protein complexes. The described simulations represent a first approximation to assess PSD complex abundance, and as such, use significant simplifications. 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