Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan or a sharp pin, you are sending sensory information via sensory neurons up to the brain. The flow of electrical ...

This communication occurs at a highly specialized site of contact between a presynaptic nerve terminal and a postsynaptic neuron — the synapse. Information is transmitted in the form of a ...

The neuron? The cortical column ... might their basic formulation have emphasized the nonlinearities of the synapse instead? The challenge now is to figure out which, if any, of the experimental ...