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=Introduction =

For hundreds of years scientists have been studying the mysteries of the neuron. and now they know how important the neuron is to life. there's more than one type of neuron for different jobs in your body that have to be done. And like all cells they have they're own special diseases

toc =What are neurons =

You might be wondering, what is a neuron? a neuron is "a specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell." though it looks very different from an animal cell.

this is a neuron compared to an animal cell

as you can see the neuron is longer and more abstractly shaped than the animal cell. The axon of a neuron is like the electric wire that goes to your house, The cell body is like the place where electricity is made, and the dendrites are like the plugs in your house. Now you're probably wondering how you use neurons so i'll tell you.

media type="youtube" key="-SHBnExxub8" width="420" height="315" =Why Are Neurons Important to me =

neurons are vital to living and with billions-trillions inside of you they're able to do everything from hear, see, and taste to feel, smell, and move you around. they do this by sending electrical impulses through the neurons kind of like electricity through a wire to a motor.

=What Are the Different Parts of a Neuron Called and What is the Difference Between Neurons. =

There's more than one type of neuron, actually there's three, motor neurons, sensory neurons, and interneurons. motor neurons take signals from your brain and transmit them into your muscle telling it to contract or not to. Sensory neurons are the ones in your skin, eyes, nose, and ears that send the infromation that they collect back to you're brain. interneurons are just the neurons in between your motor neurons, sensory neurons and your brain. all types of neurons have an axon, dendrites, cell body.

=What is Multiple Sclerosis=

MS or Multiple Sclerosis is a terrible disease that scientists are pretty sure is influenced by gender, genetics, age, geography or ethnic background, however it's not contagious. At this point you might be wondering, what MS does to someone like you and me? well if you had MS then you would have slower reactions, and basically everything that requires neurons in your body would be slower, which is everything😏. this happens because MS targets the myelin that surrounds the axon of a neuron. the myelin is a fatty substance that speeds up the information traveling through the neuron by up to 90 meters per second. So as MS eats away at the myelin the speed of information traveling through your neurons slows down, causing you to have slower reactions.

=Conclusion =

as scientists continue to study neurons and ways to cure diseases like MS you can sit back and relax because you just learned what a neuron is, why it's important to you, and what the different types of neurons are. and you did it in <5 mins you're a genius because it took scientists >100 years to do what you just did. 5mins< 100 years