Communication Within A Neuron

Question 1

Where is the information received?

Answer 1

At the receptor sites of the post synaptic neuron

Question 2

Where is the information sent from the receptor sites?

Answer 2

Soma

Question 3

What happens in the soma?

Answer 3

Action potential is generated

Question 4

Describe how the charge inside the axon is changed from negative ( resting ) to positive ( action )

Answer 4

When something happens the negative charge reaches its action potential and then the outside energy becomes negative

Question 5

What happens when the energy inside the axon becomes positive?

Answer 5

Impulse bursts along the axon towards the axon terminals

Question 6

What happens when the impulse reaches the axon terminals

Answer 6

It moves towards the terminal buttons

Question 7

What does the terminal button contain?

Answer 7

Vesicles containing neurotransmitters

Question 8

What happens to the vesicles?

Answer 8

Action potential causes vesicles to move towards the membrane of the axon terminal

Question 9

What happens to the vesicles at the axon terminal membrane?

Answer 9

Neurotransmitters Released across the synaptic gap

Question 10

What receives the neurotransmitters?

Answer 10

Dendrites of the post-synaptic neuron