Sensory Strip Image #5:
 DESCRIPTION OF SYNAPTIC IONIC ACTION
INSIDE YOUR BRAIN'S CORTICAL SENSORY STRIP

Description of Sensory Cortex Dynamic Synaptic Ionic Action

SYNAPTIC IONIC ACTION INSIDE
YOUR BRAIN'S CORTICAL SENSORY STRIP


    [1] Target Cell

    [2] Closed Channel

    [3] Receptors

    [4] Open Channel

    [5] Sodium Ions



    The electrical and chemical process of transferring nerve impulses between neurons and among neurons and other neuronal networks is called a "synapse." Thus your synapses are "biological switches" that transmit "electro-chemical messages" to and from your brain and nervous system.

    Each synapse is made up of two parts. One is a knoblike "synaptic bulb" at the end of the transmitting neuron. The other part is the "receptor region" on the membrane of the target cell. This diagram shows a synaptic bulb in action at the end of an "axon terminal fiber" releasing its sodium ions.
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