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other nerve cells...
The brain is made up of nerve cells (also called neurons). There are neurons both in the central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system. The communication between neurons occurs with release of neurotransmitters (chemicals that affect the surface of neurons). The release of neurotransmitters occurs when an electrical impulse travels down the neuron and causes the neuron to "fire" off neurotransmitter. This electrical impulse is called an "action potential." The release of neurotransmitter can have one of two possible effects on the "receiving" neuron, depending on which neurotransmitter binds with which neuron. It can make the receiving neuron either more likely to fire (excitatory) or less likely to fire (inhibitory). The result of this activity in billions of neurons creates quite a symphony, including everything we call thought.
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What special nerve cells in the spinal cord carries messages to and from the brain?
association
Which type of nerve cell carries messages toward the brain?
Sensory neurons are the type of nerve cells that carry messages from sensory receptors towards the brain to process and interpret information.
Carries messages toward the brain from receptors?
nerves our individual cells-neurons
What nerve carries messages away from the eye to the brain?
the Optic Nerve
What system carries messages from the sense to the brain?
nerve
What carries messages through your body?
Nerve cells or ?
A cell that carries messages through the nervous system is called a?
Nerve cells, or neurons, are specialized cells that carry messages through an electrical process in the brain. The brain contains about 100 billion neurons.
What messages the eye to the brain?
The optic nerve carries signals from the eyes to the brain.
What organ or system carries messages from senses to the brain?
nerve
How can neurons carry messages to the brain?
The long bundle of neurons that carries messages to and from the body to the brain and is responsible for very fast, lifesaving reflexes is called the? Spinal cord.
Where do nerve cells send the messages?
the brain
Where do you think messages come from and where are they sent?
the message comes from your mouth and when you hear it by your ear parts of your nerve cells that pick up messages or dendrites carries to the brain
