Type of neurons that are found within brain and spinal cord, process incoming impulses and pass them on to motor neurons.
Interneurons
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Long, taillike fiber that extends from the cell body â carries messages away from the cell body.
Axons
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The message-carrying unit of the nervous system.
Neurons
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About how many neurons are in the human brain.
100 billion
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The Gap between neurons and are essential to the transmission of nervous impulses from one neuron to another.
Synapse
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Part of the Neurons also called Soma, which contain the nucleus.
Cell body
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The information carried by neuronsto the brain are called.
Nerve Impulses
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Type of neurons that are called efferent, transmit impulses from the brain and spinal cord to the effector cells, which may be those muscles, organs, glands.
Motor Neurons
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Type of neurons that are called afferent neurons because their function is to receive initial stimuli from the sense organs, where most of the receptors are located.
Sensory Neurons
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Part of the Neurons which receive and carry information toward the cell body.