If you touch a hot stove, in your fingertip sense the dangerous heat and convert this stimulus into an electrical signal. This signal leaves your fingertip via nerve cells called . These nerves are part of an anatomical division of the nervous system called the . The signal travels along these nerves, and then to the spinal cord and brain. These two structures make up an anatomical division called the . Within this part of the nervous system, specialized nerves called integrate this information, formulate a response, and then communicate these instructions as nerve impulses to . These neurons bring the message to the muscles in your arm to pull your hand away.

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motor neurons

peripheral nervous system

sensory neurons

central nervous system

interneurons

sensory receptors