SENSORY NEURONS

• WHAT DO SENSORY NEURONS DO?

  receive sensory impulse
• FUNCTION OF SENSORY NEURONS?

  carries messages about the sensation of a stimulus from PNS to CNS
• KEY FEATURES OF SENSORY NEURONS?

  • unipolar
  • short axons
  • long dendrites
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF A NEURON IS UNIPOLAR?

  one neurite (axon/ dendrite) extends from the cell body