Area of contact between the axons of neurons, enabling nerve impulses to be transmitted.
There are several types of synapse:
- axosomatic synapses (between an axon of neuron A and the cell body membrane of neuron B),
- axo-axonic synapses (between two axons A and B),
- axodendritic synapses (between an axon of neuron A and a dendrite of neuron B),
- dendrodendritic synapses (between two dendrites).
- Neuron :
- Basic cell of the nervous tissue, capable of receiving, analysing, reproducing and transmitting information in the form of an electrical or chemical signal.