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Hello students from CELTOFESO. I'm making this video to explain one of the most important parts of the nervous system, neurons.

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Today we are talking about neurons, ok?

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We studied neurons before because we said that they are very differentiated cells, so they are very different from other cells in our body.

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So the shape of the neuron is very characteristic, ok? It's something like this.

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and then with a very very long tail that finishes like this so here is the soma or the cell body

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okay when we have the cytoplasm and organelles so remember the structure of cells that we study

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at the beginning of the year the cytoplasm and the organelles are there okay then we have like this

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little hairs or branches ramas that are called dendrites this long thing that

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it's called the axon okay all this is called the axon and the axon is white

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because it's surrounded by like a layer of like an envelope of a substance that

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is white that it's called myelin and it's very very important so these are neurons okay

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what is happening that neurons will connect with each other because the function of neurons

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is connect we connect neurons to create thoughts to create memory to create responses so imagine

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that I have this dendrite here that is connected with another the action of

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another neuron okay this is the action of another neuron and then here we have

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another neuron connected here and this neuron will connect its action to the

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dendrite of the following neuron so here we have another neuron okay and it's a

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more just because I want you to to focus on the on the structure and here between

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the action of this neuron the the red neuron and the dendrites here is

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happening a very important thing okay that just make it green and here we have

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the synapses the synapses is the communication between neurons so neurons

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are communicating with each other okay why because in the neurons we have

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neurotransmitters we have substances that will travel they are in the action

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okay and then they will travel to the dendrite of the next neuron and then

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they'll create a new response okay so that is the synapses and that is the functions of neurotransmitters

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and neurotransmitters are very different we will study some of them before but this is the main

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part of of neurons okay

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function as we saw at the beginning of the year they have dendrites from where they collect information

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from other neurons and then they have the cell body where the organelles are cytoplasm and a

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very long axon that sends the signals until it reaches the end of the axon and connects with

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other neurons, that is, the neurons are connecting, they receive through the dendrites and send

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send information through the axons and how they send information through

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some chemical substances called neurotransmitters that are

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very important between neurons there is a space called synapses and that is the

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space in which these chemical molecules travel from one neuron to another