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Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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The Brain Science Podcast - What Is It All About?

In the second book of your brain science podcast, you talk about neurons. What is it that makes neurons different from other cells in the body? Ye, that's surely getting at the heart of the matter. The two major structural differences from other cells are they have what are called dendritic trees and an axon. So a human brain has about a hundred billion of these nurons,. all communicating, firing action potentials, releasing nero transmitter, processing sensory and fot, generating motor output.

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