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Axon: The part of a nerve cell, along which action potentials travel to synapses linking them to neighbouring cells. ^[e]

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Nervous system [r]: The control unit of bodily functions in animals. ^[e]
Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. ^[e]
Neuron [r]: An excitable cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses. ^[e]

Myelin [r]: The proteinaceous material constituting most of the insulating sheath that surrounds the axons of nerve cells. ^[e]
Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling ^[e]

Dendrite [r]: A long, thin extension of the cell body of a neuron that is specialised to receive afferent input from other neurons. ^[e]
Soma (neuron) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Glia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Synaptic plasticity [r]: Add brief definition or description
Synaptic pruning [r]: The usage-controlled loss of connections between nerve cells during brain development. ^[e]
Neurogenesis [r]: The formation of nerve cells from neural progenitor cells by means of cell division. ^[e]
Neuronal migration [r]: The process by which nerve cells travel from the place of their last cell division to their final position in the brain. ^[e]
White matter [r]: A subset of brain tissue whose volume is dominated by myelinated axons of nerve cells. ^[e]
Nerve fibre [r]: The axon of a nerve cell. ^[e]
Fibre tracking [r]: Add brief definition or description