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THE MIRACLE OF HORMONES

Dentrite
Frontal cortex
Striatum

Neuron

Ventral tegmental area

Signal

Nerve messages from
Signal one neuron to another
are sent as electrical
MAO Enzyme
Released impulses along the
Dopamine
dopamine axon. They are sent
Synapse
from the ends of the
axon to another nerve
Synapse cell by nerve transmit-
ter hormones located
Receptors on the end of the
nerve. Dopamine is
one of those transmit-
NEURON RECEPTOR ter hormones.

These delicate balances and complex mechanisms are not composed
of a random series of events. The One Who creates them, keeps them
under His power, gives them to the service of human beings and takes
them back again when He wishes, is God, to Whom belongs eternal
power and knowledge.

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