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Harun Yahya

thou sand connections with oth er neu rons. The pla ces where these neu rons contact are known as
syn ap ses, the points where in for ma tion ex chan ges take place.
According to Professor Ramachandran, “the num ber of pos si ble per mu ta tions and com -
bi na tions of brain ac tiv i ty, in oth er words the num ber of brain states, ex ceeds the num ber of

el e men ta ry par ti cles in the known uni verse.” 84
A nerve cell in the brain pos sess es all the struc tures nec es sa ry to main tain for the cell’s me tab o lism,
for it to di gest pro teins and per form all the need ed func tions.
A neu ron has branched extensions, known as den drites. Dendrites’ great est func tion is to re ceive

elec tro mag net ic mes sa ges from oth er neu rons and to trans mit them to the cell body. Dendrites are rel a -
tive ly thick at the point where they leave the cell body, but then pro gres sive ly di vide in to tens, or even
hun dreds of branch es that then be come thin ner and thin ner. The num ber of den drites va ries, de pend -
ing on the func tion of the cell.

Another ex ten sion de part ing from the neu ron is called the ax on, whose job is to car ry in for ma tion
to oth er neu rons. This in for ma tion as sumes the form of an elec tri cal cur rent. The brain con tains
de pots for the stor age of neu ro chem i cals, vesicles that re lease these chem i cals to car ry mes sa ges
to the next cell in the cir cuit. Neurons thus car ry in for ma tion along to the next neu ron by way of

ax ons. To put it an oth er way, den drites take the in for ma tion for ward ed from an oth er neu ron, and ax -
ons for ward it on to anoth er neu ron. Axons may ex tend for as long as a me ter, or else be just few tenths
of a mil li me ter.
How many dif fer ent types of neu rons are there in the brain? That ques tion has not yet been ful ly an -

swered, though there are es ti mat ed to be around fifty. Despite the dif fer en ces in their shapes, siz es,
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types of con nec tion and neu ro chem i cal con tents, all neu rons car ry in for ma tion in al most the same man -
ner. They com mu ni cate with one an oth er in an elec tro chem i cal
“lan guage.” Information emer ges from one neu ron and is

re ceived by an oth er in the form of elec tri cal sig nals pro -
duced by charged at oms or ions, particularly pos i tive -
ly charged so di um and po tas si um ions or neg a tive ly
charged chlo ride ions. Each of the 100 bil lion neu -
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rons es tab lishes con nec tions with be tween a few
thousand and one hun dred thou sand other

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