A stimulus
A stimulus is a change that starts an electrochemical charge, an impulse, moving along a nerve cell.
axon
The rapid change in membrane potential caused by the depolarization of a neuron is known as an action potential. During depolarization, voltage-gated sodium channels open, allowing sodium ions to flow into the cell, causing the inside of the neuron to become more positive. This shift in charge initiates the action potential, which is essential for the transmission of electrical signals along the neuron.
Selective (or differential) permeability allows the cell to regulate its internal environment and maintain internal homeostasis. This is also the basis by which a neuron (nerve cell) can 'fire' and send a message along its axon - it selectively allows one electrolyte then a different electrolyte to flow across its cell membrane and change the electrochemical gradient.
That would be an interneuron otherwise known as an associative neuron.
Neurotransmitters are released from the presynaptic neuron into the synaptic cleft, where they diffuse across to bind to receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. This binding initiates a series of events that can either excite or inhibit the postsynaptic neuron, leading to the transmission of signals in the nervous system.
A momentary change in electrical potential on the surface of a cell, especially of a nerve or muscle cell, that occurs when it is stimulated, resulting in the transmission of an electrical impulse. &/or "nerve impulses" or "spikes".
axon
When neurotransmitters communicate an inhibitory message to the postsynaptic neuron:
The rapid change in membrane potential caused by the depolarization of a neuron is known as an action potential. During depolarization, voltage-gated sodium channels open, allowing sodium ions to flow into the cell, causing the inside of the neuron to become more positive. This shift in charge initiates the action potential, which is essential for the transmission of electrical signals along the neuron.
a relay neuron is the neuron that picks up the message from the sensory neuron and delivers it to the motor neuron in the spinal cord or the brain
It is called an Interneuron
neurotransmitters
The electrical message that travels along a neuron is called an action potential. It is a brief change in electrical voltage that travels down the length of the neuron, allowing for communication between neurons and the transmission of signals throughout the nervous system.
An Impulse
Electrical impulses.
Axon sends the message. Dendrite receives it.
Selective (or differential) permeability allows the cell to regulate its internal environment and maintain internal homeostasis. This is also the basis by which a neuron (nerve cell) can 'fire' and send a message along its axon - it selectively allows one electrolyte then a different electrolyte to flow across its cell membrane and change the electrochemical gradient.