What is a receptor?

What is an effector?

What are the three main types of neurone?

Describe the Nervous communication system

What is a transducer?

What is the resting potential?

Outline how an action potential is generated and describe depolarisation

Describe repolarisation

What is Hyperpolarisation

What is the refractory period?

Why are refractory periods necessary?

What is the all-or-nothing nature of action potentials?

What three factors increase the speed of conduction of action potentials?

What are the Nodes of Ranvier?

What is saltatory conduction and how does it speed conduction?

How does Axon diameter(1) and temperature(2) speed conduction?

What is a synapse?

What is the synaptic cleft?

What is a cholinergic synapse?

What happens when an action potential arrives at the presynaptic knob?

What happens across the synaptic cleft once ACh is released?

How is the synapse restored?

Roles of Synapses

What is divergence?

What is convergence?

What is summation?

What is spatial summation?

What is temporal summation?