Neurons & Glial Cells

Question 1

What are the 2 main cells of the nervous system?

Answer 1

Glial cells and neurons

Question 2

What are neurons?

Answer 2

signaling cells that produce and conduct action potential (are mainly electrically excitable) to eventually produce a synapses

Question 3

What are glial cells?

Answer 3

-support cells for neurons
-provide nutritional support to neurons
-support neurons during embriogenesis and neurogenesis

Question 4

When we have more dendrites, we have more spines and thus…

Answer 4

more surface area for synapse

Question 5

What are the types of neurons?

Answer 5

Sensory neurons
Motor neurons
Interneurons

Question 6

Sensory neurons

Answer 6

afferent. detect and transmit signal from the enviroment

Question 7

Sensory neurons divide into:

Answer 7

special sense neurons(located in sense organs of CNS(photoreceptor cells of the retina of the eye)or sense organs in the PNS(ej: hair cells)