• Neurons (also called neurones or nerve cells)
• the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system,
• the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, for sending motor commands to our muscles
• transforming and relaying the electrical signals at every step in between.
• specialized to transmit information to different parts of the body
• Neurons have a cell body (soma or cytoplasm), dendrites and an axon.
• we can say that there are three types of neurons: sensory, motor, and interneurons.
• Most neurons have multiple dendrites, which extend out-ward from the cell body
• A neuron has three main parts: dendrites, an axon, and a cell body or soma
• Neurons are responsible for carrying information throughout the human body.
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