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According to Michael Gershon, M.D., author of The Second Brain (HarperCollins, 1999), and a neurobiologist at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Gershon recently explained to PT how an independent network of over 100 billion neurons in the gut not only signals our bodies to stress but causes illness. (from Psychology Today: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19990501-000013.html )
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Are there neurons in your stomach?
No, only in your brain.
What is the role of sensory neurons in the breakdown of food?
Beyond being involved in the taste of food, sensory neurons do not have much of a role in breaking down food. The teeth do the grinding and the stomach is where most of the mixing takes place.
What are neurons called that detect stimuli in the skin and eye?
sensory neurons
Are neurons that relay impulses from sensory neurons to motor neurons?
Sensory Neurons
Sensory neorons and neurons are connected by-?
Sensory neurons and neurons are connected by Interneurons.
What are neurons that carry information between sensory neurons and motor neurons?
Interneurons or association neurons.
What type of neurons are multipolar?
Motor neurons and intern neurons
What is. The function of associative neurons?
The neurons form the bodies nervous system.
What are neurons that relay impulses from sensory to motor neurons?
Sensory Neurons
Sensory neurons are also known as?
Afferent Neurons
Interneurons or association neurons are?
Interneurons or association neurons are connector neurons that establish connections between other neurons.
What neurons that carry impulse to the brain and spinal cord called?
These are called efferent neurons. The one that carry impulses away are afferent. Afferent (A) are away (A).
