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AP Psychology 3.3 Biological Bases of Behavior. The long and skinny part of the neuron extending from the cell body to the terminal buttons is called the what?

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by neurons, out of all

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the cells in your body these have the most nerve... A long and skinny part of [A neuron]

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a neuron extending from the cell body to the terminal buttons is called the what

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and here are potential interesting....okay well here's a trick for remembering the [Magician on stage with a bunny in a hat]

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shape of each part of the neuron their names sound a bit like what they look

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like take A) the soma otherwise known as the cell body well this is a bulbous [soma diagram]

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end of a neuron containing the cell body what does the soma look like a big round

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body what else has a big round body a sumo..soma, sumo makes sense, definitely [A soma and sumo side by side]

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not long skinny though let's take a look at C) dendrite, a dendrite is a system of

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short branches that extend off the nerve cell to receive information from [A dendrite branch]

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other neurons, well a dendrite looks branch like extending off the body and

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curling about well what else curls? A plants tendril, dendrite..tendril..

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useful to remember but not quite long straight skinny the synapse is a

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tricky one its the structure that allows signals to travel between one neuron and [signals travelling between synapses]

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another here's a diagram well none of that looks long and skinny so we can

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definitely move on without even worrying about finding a word you can remember it by

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because well nothing really works for synapse anyway or maybe something does [baby sleeping]

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but we're 20 minutes past our coffee break and aren't capable of

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thinking too hard about it all right the myelin sheath is pretty much what it [woman walking like a zombie for coffee]

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sounds like a sheath. Thank You scientist for using a name that makes sense. Picture

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a swords sheath, myelin sheath looks about the same and also happens to look long [myelin sheath with a swords sheath]

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and skinny could this be our answer not quite anyway because as with the sword

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and it's sheath, the myelin sheath is simply there to protect something far

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more important inside which would be the axon, the axon is critical to

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transferring messages from one neuron to the next as it takes the information [information transferring from neurons]

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from the cell body to the terminal buttons to be carried away and also its

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long and skinny so yeah it's our answer I think of the axon as the mule in a [Donkey crossing a road]

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shady business transaction it's only job is to get the goods to the pickup location no

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questions asked and no the axon doesn't look like a mule we kind of dropped

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the whole looks like half way through this video sorry hey someone get [Woman begging for coffee]

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us some coffee, stat!

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