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Neuron Research Paper

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Neuron

Anything we do as humans such as thinking, feeling, and hearing would not happen without the neuron. The neuron sends messages throughout the body when the body is in trouble or pain. The neuron is a part of the nervous system which makes the body move. There are only three structures to the neuron; cell body, dendrite, and the axon. With these structures come functions to help the body think, feel, and hear. When these functions don’t work they can cause diseases in which the body needs to be healthy to work. These are the reasons the neuron is important.

The neuron cell is a part of the nervous system. The nervous system is what makes the body think, move, or feel pain. Functions within the nervous system are that it receives information, responds to information, and maintains homeostasis. Homeostasis is when the body is stable. Through the nervous system the body will receive information like what happens around the environment and it will check what’s going on inside the body. “ The Stimulus is any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react like when somebody scares you”(Hall 177). The nervous system will analyze this stimulus which will cause a response. When the nervous system gets this response it …show more content…

Some of these diseases are life long and the body can not get rid of. Parkinson's disease is when cells in the brain causes symptoms. Another disease is Multiple Sclerosis where the immune system will eat the myelin sheath which protects the nerves. One syndrome is Tourette's syndrome which is when movements are not in one’s control. A cancer is brain cancer when growth is not normal and causes a tumor. According to (Life and Death of a neuron) it says “ Huntington's disease is a genetic mutation which causes over production of a neurotransmitter.” as an effect people will twist uncontrollably. There are many malfunctions to the neuron but all the body needs to do is to be

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