Neuron Signaling Tutorial

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The video you just watched discussed how an action potential works. Review the image below showing two neurons. As you can see, the action potential travels down the axon of a neuron, but does not jump from one neuron to the next. In order for a signal to get from one neuron to the next, that signal must be sent across a synapse. At a synapse, the axon terminal of one neuron sends signals to the dendrites of the next neuron. 

We're only going to watch a portion of this next video that briefly discusses synaptic signaling.

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