2023-05-27 16:00:00
The brain is a tremendously complicated organ that has required thousands of years to evolve to its current complexity. Inside, millions of neurons communicate with each other through an essential chemical mechanism: the synapse. Basically it’s about of the nervous impulse that is produced through the neurons and that enables their communication. And it consists, in essence, of a chemical discharge translated into an electrical signal that travels through the neural networks of our brain at breakneck speed.
The nerve impulse travels through the neuron, and when reaches their dendrites (a kind of frayed arms), jumps to the next neuron through the synapsewhich is produced through chemical exchange called neurotransmitters.
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60 different neurotransmitters
Each decision, each stimulus, each movement generates a torrent of chemical neurotransmitters in different parts of your brain in a matter of milliseconds. So far, more than 60 types of neurotransmitters, each of them with a specific signal. And in this way, the emitting neurons, depending on the message they want to send, release a particular neurotransmitter (adrenaline, norepinephrine, dopamine…). Then, this chemical substance crosses the synaptic gap (the one between neuron and neuron, which they never touch) to reach the receptor.
Receptor neurons have a chemical structure designed to bind only to certain receptors, like keys that fit a single lock. In this way they interpret the message that reaches them and is able to transmit it to the next neuron.
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