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Demao Song, Ph.D. Department of Physiology Pathophysiology ORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; BASIC FUNCTIONS OF SYNAPSES AND TRANSMITTER SUBSTANCES ORGANIZATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The Center Nervous System Neuron – The Basic Functional Unit The central nervous system contains more than 100 billion neurons. The incoming signal enter the neuron through synapses mainly on the neuronal dendrite, but also on the cell body. A special feature of most synapses is that the signal normally passes only in the forward direction (from axon to dendrites). For different types of neurons, there may be o