{"id":215,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:55:17","slug":"making-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=215","title":{"rendered":"Making connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The brain and the rest of the nervous system are composed of many different types of cells, but the primary functional unit is a cell called the <a href=\"?p=179\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">neuron<\/span><\/a>. All sensations, movements, thoughts, memories, and feelings are the result of signals that pass through neurons. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 301px; height: 110px;\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/neurontjes.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Neurons <a href=\"?p=184\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">consist of three parts<\/span><\/a>:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The cell body containing the <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">nucleus<\/span>, where most of its molecules for proper functioning are manufactured.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Dendrites<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> extend out from the cell body like the branches of a tree and receive messages from other nerve cells that are passed on to the cell\u2019s body.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Some signals travel away from the cell body, down an <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">axon<\/span> to another neuron, a muscle cell, or cells in some other organ. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The neuron is\u00a0surrounded by many support cells,\u00a0some of which wrap around the axon to form an insulating sheath, making nerve signals travel faster and farther. Axons may be very short and carry signals only a hair\u2019s width away, or are\u00a0very long, carrying messages way down the spinal cord. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=218\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The brain and the rest of the nervous system are composed of many different types of cells, but the primary functional unit is a cell called the neuron. All sensations, movements, thoughts, memories, and feelings are the result of signals that pass through neurons. Neurons consist of three parts: The cell body containing the nucleus,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10922,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/10922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}