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What is a Sensory Nerve? – Video
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- This video discusses sensory nerves.
- Unipolar neurons, which collect information, and bipolar neurons are rare in the body.
- Multipolar neurons are the most common sensory nerve.
- Psuedo-unipolar neurons allow for one-way action potential transmission without going through the soma.
- The dorsal root has sensory afferent nerves, and the ventral root has outgoing efferent nerves.
- The two types of summation are temporal and spatial. Temporal consists of one nerve with many impulses, while spatial involves many impulses spread over many nerves.
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