1 Neurons are composed of a cell body containing the nucleus, dendrites that receive chemical, electrical, or other signals via receptors or through gap junctions (direct ... allow for impulses to ...

An electrical impulse cannot directly cross the gap so ... Re-uptake – the neurotransmitter is reabsorbed back into the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again.

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in temperature). Sensory neuron sends electrical impulses to a relay neuron, which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons ...

Many of us will have seen robotics or prosthetics operated by the electrical impulses detected ... problem of picking up the extremely weak nerve impulses while simultaneously avoiding ...