Education
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Nerve: a whitish fiber or bundle of fibers that transmits impulses of sensation to the brain or spinal cord, and impulses from these to the muscles and organs.
- Nerve impulse: a signal transmitted along a nerve fiber. It consists of a wave of electrical depolarization that reverses the potential difference across the nerve cell membranes.
- Referred pain: pain perceived at a location other than the site of the painful stimulus/origin. It is the result of a network of interconnecting sensory nerves that supplies many different tissues.
- Sensory cortex: the region of the brain that deals with sensory information.
MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC
If you like what we do, you can help us!
- Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth
- Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth
- Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books
- Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com
- Share with your friends and family
- Leave us a comment (we read them!)
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices