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A sensory stimulus can generate a neural impulse, as can repeated or multiple inputs of neural signals from other neurons.A neural signal is transmitted from one neuron to anotheracross a synapse via chemicals called neurotransmitters, and a neural impulse is transmitted along an axon of a neuron by either an action potential (in an unmyelinated axon) or by saltatory conduction (in a myelinated axon).
It is the explanation of signal transfer along a nerve cell or neuron.
Technically a neural impulse moves from the cell body to the axon terminal, because a nerve impulse is defined as an electrical signal that travels along an AXON.This may be confusing because neural signals move in three places with respect to the neurons, in three correspondingly different ways, and only one is called the neural impulse.Neural signals move in these places: betweenneurons (ie, from one neuron to another), intoneurons, and along axons (the outputs of neurons, when a neuron has fired).BETWEEN NEURONS: A neural signal can be passed from one neuron to another, at a synapse, across the synaptic cleft, by the release of chemicals called neurotransmittersfrom the presynaptic neuron, which diffuse across the synaptic cleft, to fit into receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. This is a chemical transmission of the neural signal, not an impulse.INTO A NEURON: when a signal has passed from one neuron to another by the release, diffusion, and reception of neurotransmitters, it initiates a graded response in the dendrites of the postsynaptic neuron, which travels with decreasing strength down the dendrites and across the soma (cell body), until it reaches the root of the axon, the axon hillock. This graded response is also not an impulse.ALONG THE AXON: if enough graded response signalsreach the axon hillock at about the same time, (it might be helpful to think of them as degraded signals, since they get weaker the further they travel), such that their combined strengths can trigger an all or nothing action potential in the axon, then it can be said that the neuron has fired a neuronal impulse.So, there are neural signals which move betweenneurons and into neurons, and neural impulses which fire and move along axons from the cell body (soma).
Yes, that's correct. Within a neuron, communication occurs through electrical signals that travel along the neuron's axon. When these signals reach the synapse (junction between neurons), they trigger the release of chemical neurotransmitters that carry the signal to the next neuron.
A neuron is an individual cell in the PNS or CNS that can be excited and conduct impulses along its axon. A nerve is a bundle of multiple neuron fibers that each are carrying their own signals. They are protected by connective tissue. Eventually the neuron fibers diverge away from the nerve to reach their destination.
The function of a neuron is to transmit a signal at a very fast rate. The function of the entire nervous system is to provide a system that allows for signals to be transmitted quickly from one specific location to another locations.
The cell body of a neuron contains the nucleus and organelles involved in protein synthesis and metabolism. It integrates incoming signals from dendrites and generates electrical signals known as action potentials that travel along the axon to communicate with other neurons or cells.
The Axon is the neuron that is responsible for notifying the brain a person had hurt themselves. The axon is the cell that allows impulses to travel along it.
I'm assuming you're talking about dendrites... And the dendrites are what receive signals on a neuron. Signals are delivered through the axon to the axon terminal, which passes the signal to another neuron's dendrites.
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Various muscles of lower limb and back and hip.Each nerve impulse begins in the dendrites of a neuron's. the impulse move rapidly toward the neuron's cell body and then down the axon until it reaches the axon tip. a nerve impulse travels along the neuron in the form of electrical and chemical signals.
Signalling ALONG a neuron is electrical, but signalling BETWEEN neurons is a chemical process. Neuron A 'passes' a message onto the next by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters , which are then taken up by neuron B. The point at which these neurotransmitters are released from the neuron A is called the 'terminal bouton' and is the end of its axon. More specifically, it is the presynaptic membrane OF the terminal bouton at which the passing on of a message occurs.