NEURONS

Neurons and Neurotransmitters



Neurons and Neurotransmitters

Introduction

A Neuron is a specialized nerve cell that receives, processes, and transmits information to other cells in the body. We have a fixed number of neurons, which means they do not regenerate. About 10,000 neurons die everyday, but since we start out with between ten and 100 billion (Hooper & Teresi, 1987), we only lose about 2% over our lifetime.

Discussion

Information comes into the neuron through the Dendrites from other neurons. It then continues to the Cell Body - (soma) which is the main part of the neuron, which contains the nucleus and maintains the life ...