... summation 112 Temporal summation 112 Neuromuscular ( myoneural ) junction 112 Axon of sensory neuron Cell body of sensory neuron The. Basic Structure of the Nerve Basic Function of the Nerve The Nerve Impulse 108 Nerve - to - Nerve Synapses ...

... memory ; we know that the mental machine is made up functionally of many ... cell body and den- drites . Renaut has a somewhat similar view , and for a ... conduction in the brain may be blocked or made more free by physical and mental ...

Previously published as essays, the chapters in this book provide a history of various aspects of synaptic function, beginning with the evolution over two and a half thousand years and how progress was made in the establishment of a ...

... body . There is a division of labor among the nerves . The cranial nerves ... cell body , an axon , and dendrites . When an axon is not conducting an action potential ( nerve impulse ) ... synapse . In humans , synaptic vesicles release a ...

... conduction velocities of the fibres in the nerve, though not a very ... Impulse. (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Another excellent account is ... arc, will be restored to the muscle from which, as we are pleased to think, it previously ...

... conduction of a nervous impulse over a simple reflex arc . This was accounted for by a nervous impulse that arose in a receptor and was transmit- ted along the fibers of an afferent neuron . It then made a synapse with a second neuron ...

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