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Neural Firing: the brain’s postal system




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


      one place and travels to another.










        When a neuron fires an electrical signal,



        it travels down the trunk of the neuron


        and special brain chemicals are released.








        These brain chemicals and the ‘branches’



        of the neuron help the signal to travel


        across a gap (called the synapse) to the


        next neuron.





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