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By Samantha Lee • nerves that take in information, • from the outside world, or body itself, • that communicates information to the brain What are Sensory Neurons? •Taste •Sound •Touch •Smell •Vision Nervous System Central nervous system Brain Spinal cord Somatic nerves (somatic nervous system) voluntary Sensory Peripheral nervous system Autonomic nerves (autonomic nervous system) Motor involuntary Sympathetic Parasympathic What are special about Neurons? •Are specialized to transmit information throughout the body •Stop reproducing shortly after birth •Parts of the brain have more neurons at birth then later in life •Neurons die but are not replaced •Amblyopia, •Astigmatism •Cataract •Color blindness •Deafness FAM134B •Found in the Golgi apparatus •Function unknown SMA/SMN •Believed that SMA was exclusively in motor neurons •Leading inherited cause of infant death •Cause by a genetic deficiency of SMN •No cures, few therapies have shown positive results.
