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HARUN YAHYA








                                                        Brain
                                         7
                                        Sensory
                                        cortex
                                                               6
                                                             Thalamus






                                                        5
                                                      Pathway
                                                      crosses over
                                                                   When you press a
                                                                 button with your fin-
                                                                      ger a series of
                                                                 processes occurs in
                                                    Spinal
                                                    cord           your brain. Firstly,
                         Direction of
                         nerve impulse                              thousands of re-
                                                                   ceivers in your fin-
                                                  Direction of   gertip go into action.
                                                  nerve impulse
                                                                 1) The first receivers
                                                                affected are the nerve
                                                                 endings in the finger-
                                                                       tip. Pressure
                                                 Cervical segment  changes their shape
                                                 of spinal cord
                                                                 and there is an elec-
                                                                     trical discharge.
                                                     Spinal
                                                     ganglion    2) This electrical cur-
                                            4
                                                                   rent passes to the
                                                      Cell body   nerve fibres known
                                                                        as the axon.



                                               3) It moves through the spinal cord at
                                              133 metres per second. 4) After the sig-
                                                   nal enters the spinal column 5) it
                                               moves in the opposite direction to the
                                                  medulla oblongata in the brain. 6)
                                                From here it moves to the thalamus
                                                 and reaches the sensory cortex, its
                                               final destination. All these processes
                                               happen in less time than it takes you
                                                              to blink your eye.

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