Types of neurons

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What are the 3 types of neurons?

  • sensory

  • relay

  • motor

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What is the purpose of the sensory neuron?

receives information from the environment

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What is unique about the sensory neuron?

  • 2 axons

  • cell body in the middle

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What is the purpose of the relay neuron?

Receives information from the sensory neurons and transmits it through to motor neurons

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What is unique about relay neurons?

  • only found in central nervous system

  • no myelin sheath as short

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What is the purpose of motor neuron?

transmit messages from the CNS to muscles and glands

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What is unique about motor neurons?

they have nodes of ranvier