PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Axon Terminal, Neuroglia, Cell Nucleus

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

They are communication links of the nervous system. Branchlike parts of the neutron that receive information. Contains the cell nucleus and most of the chemical machinery to most cells. Long, thin bre that transmits signals from neutron cell body to other neurons, muscles or glands. They are wrapped in calls with a high concentration of white, fatty substance called myelin. Insulating material that is derived from glial cells and encases some axons. Terminal buttons (release chemical messengers that carry signals to other neurons) Small knobs at end of axons that discharge neurotransmitters. Junction where information is transmitted from one neutron to another. Info is received at dendrites, passes through soma and along the axon, and then transmitted to other dendrites in other called to the meeting point that is the synapses. Cells found throughout the nervous system and provides various support for neurons. Plays a complicated role in orchestrating the development of nervous system in human embryos.