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Imagine, there are tiny little computers passing signals around your body 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And these signals determine every one of you movements and reactions. Your nerves are very important cells in your body without them we wouldn’t be able to do really anything.

**The Function of a Neuron**

Just like a cellphone, neurons pass information between many different specialized parts specific to it. The main function of a neuron is to carry information throughout your nervous system. The neurons do this by passing the electric pulse like signals called impulses from neuron to neuron throughout your entire body. Which are passed from neuron to neuron. .This information is always being passed around inside your body for everything that you do, from walking to thinking to breathing to speaking is all because of the neurons passing impulses to the brain and then reversing the signal and passing back through your neurons and then you doing it. The nervous system’s main job is to be the control center for your entire body, everything you do is passed to your brain by neurons that them tell different neurons to react to what you do (brainpop- the nervous system). The central nervous is constructed of your spinal cord and your brain. Both have a huge part of your nervous system, and your thinking, feeling, and reactions.

=Structures of a Neuron=

There are may structures that help your neurons perform their function of carry information throughout your nervous system. From axons, to axon tips, to dentries, all have an very important part in helping your neurons pass information through your body. The impulses that are being passed in the nervous system carried across gaps between the axon tips and dendrites. By crossing the axon tip to the dendrite, the impulse is passed from one neuron to the next. the information that the impulses carry are carrying is chemicals that get sent to your spinal cord and to your brain that then tell your body to react to that impulse. (science explorer; Human Biology and Health). The axon on a neuron is referred to as the “core” or the “central piece” or “command center” of a neuron. The axon tips are connected to a the axon and pass the impulses to the dendrites of another neuron. There are many different structures that have many different purposes. Such as the cell body that is large, and that contains the nucleus, also the axons and the axon tips. The axon controls the neuron, and is a core part in performing the neurons function. The axon tips are like tree branches that form off of the Axon. Each part of the neuron is extremely important and needed to help signals be passed from neuron to neuron. The Axon and cell body help a impulse pass from one part of the cell to another and a axon tips and the dendrites and the passers and the receivers of the impulses.

=Diseases that Affect the Neuron=

There is many different diseases that can affect the neuron such as neuropathy and cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a disease that doesn't exactly affect the neuron, it affects the central nervous system, cerebral palsy usually affects mainly the brain. Cerebral palsy occurs because of damage or abnormalities in the brain, (teenhalthandwellness.com). According to Teenhealthand wellness.com, about 70% of cerebral palsy cases develop before a child is born. 20% of cerebral palsy cases occur during birth or shortly after, and 10% of cases develop later, due to brain damaging issues like child abuse and concussions. Another condition that affects the nerves is neuropathy. Neuropathy is a state of when the nerves in an area are damaged. Neuropathy can be caused by medicines such as chemotherapy (neuropathy-LIVESTRONG). Another common cause of neuropathy is diabetes.

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