ALPHABETICAL BRAIN VOCABULARY Flash Card #4 Details WHAT ARE YOUR "AXONS" AND WHY ARE THEY SO IMPORTANT? Your AXONS are the thin threadlike fibers called "filaments," which extend down each of your neurons, to connect to other neurons, or your senses, or your internal organs, or your muscles through "terminals," which attach through special "switches" known as SYNAPSES. The filiments "attach" to the CELL BODIES of each of your 100 MILLION neurons and they SEND electrical impulses or signals "downward". The electrical impulses or signals flow through short or very long FILAMENTS (such as your sciatica nerve which is the longest nerve in your body) that are known as "extensions." There are an average of 10,000 ATTACHMENTS to each neuron cell body. But there can be as few as one! Return to #4: AXONS or LIST OF BRAIN FLASH CARDS