Neuron Structure & Function

The skeletal muscles are controlled by this part of the nervous system.

• Somatic Nervous system
• Autonomic Nervous system
• astrocytes
• glial cells

This part of the nervous system regulates, or controls, the functioning of internal organs automatically, without having consciously to think about it.

• Somatic Nervous system

• Autonomic Nervous system

• astrocytes

• glial cells

A group of nerve cells.

• oligodendrocytes

• ependymal cells

• neurons

• Schwann cells

Consists of the brain and spinal cord.

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Somatic Nervous System
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Central Nervous system

Nerves throughout the body other than the brain and spinal cord.

• Autonomic Nervous System
• Somatic Nervous system
• Peripheral Nervous System
• Central Nervous System

The part of the neuron that receives nerve impulses.

• axon
• dendrite
• cell body
• axon terminus

White fatty matter that coats and helps insulate axons, in addition, it can increases the rate at which an impulse can be carried.

• Schwann Cell

• axon membrane

• Neurilemma

• Myelin Sheath

The junction between two communicating neurons.

• synapse
• neuromuscular junction
• dendrite
• axon

Chemical messengers that move across the synapse.

• vesicles
• sodium
• potassium
• neurotransmitters

Gaps in the myelin sheath.

• nodes of Ranvier
• axon endings 
• synapse
• neurotransmitters