PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Microglia, Fluid Compartments, Asthma
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It helps speed rate of information transfer and ensure message gets to end of axon. Information send from terminal button across synapse to dendrite. Information that passes from axon across synapse is in form of neurochemical message (by substances referred to as neurotransmitters), which may be transformed into electrical message w/in dendrite. Internal anatomy of the neuron: neuron is covered w/ a membrane, nothing obvious sets neural cell membranes apart from other animal cell. Nucleus processes genetic information needed to complete series of events that form path from the recipe that genetic information provides to form proteins that neuron needs. Nucleus also contains all genetic information needed to code proteins such as for eye or hair color, as well as those thought to underlie complex processes such as linguistic ability. In nervous system, structure and function are related: neurons can be classified according to structure and function, some common neurons are labelled as unipolar, bipolar, and multipolar (most common).
