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Regarding the motor system, how is the information transferred from the sensory system to the brain? And then from the brain to the motor system?

What are the neurological mechanisms involved that allow this communication between the brain and the peripheral nervous system?

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This short paper describes in simple language how information is transferred from the sensory system to the brain. It then describes how the information is process and how it travels to the motor system. Information was gathered from literary articles to aid in describing this process of transference from the brain to the motor system in great details.

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Regarding the motor system, how is the information transferred from the sensory system to the brain?
Regarding the motor system, how is the information transferred from the sensory system to the brain? And then from the brain to the motor system?

What are the neurological mechanisms involved that allow this communication between the brain and the peripheral nervous system?

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The transference of information from the sensory system to the brain and then to the motor system is a complicated process. Let us see if we can simplify this process in order to make it easier to understand. According to Cardoso, "Two types of phenomena are involved in processing the nerve impulse: electrical and chemical. Electrical events propagate a signal within a neuron, and chemical processes transmit the signal from one neuron to another or to a muscle cell. The chemical process of interaction between neurons and between neurons and effector cells occur at the end of the axon, in a structure called synapse. Touching very close against the dendrite of another cell (but without material continuity between both cells), the axon releases chemical substances called neurotransmitters, which attach themselves to chemical receptors in the membrane of the following neuron and promote excitatory or inhibitory changes in its membrane." Therefore, when a person senses a stimulus the information is transmitted by neurons using electrochemical impulse signals.
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