PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Peripheral Nervous System

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Doug Mc Cann

Document Summary

Information travels almost instantaneously from your eye to your brain, muscles, everywhere. Nervous system is a complex communication network in which signals are constantly being transmitted, received, and integrated. The cells in the nervous system fall into two major categories: glia and neurons. Neurons are individual cells in the nervous system that receives integrate, and transmit information. The soma, or cell body, contains the cell nucleus and much of the chemical machinery common to most cells. Rest of the neuron is devoted exclusively to handling information. Dendrites are the parts of a neuron that are specialized to receive information (dendrite is a. From the many dendrites information flows into the cell body and then travels away from the soma along the axon. The axon is a long, thin fibre that transmits signals away from the soma to other neurons or to muscles or glands.