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Neural Firing: the brain’s postal system

Whenever we think, do or say anything, neurons pass

information to each other through an electrical signal.

This system is a bit like a letter in the post –

information starts in one place and travels to another.

Brain chemicals and the ‘branches’ of the brain cell

help the signal to travel across a gap (called the

synapse) to the next neuron.