Educational thread on nerve types and definitions
 

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cv.html

This graph is easy to understand and shows 4 basic types of nerve fibers. Afferent means "going to the brain away from a stimulus". Notice that 3 types of sensation neurons are myelinated to various degrees. The more myelinated the axons, the faster the signals are transmitted.

We often see studies and papers on this forum discussing the various fiber types. So I thought to put this up, so that those papers can be more easily understood.

This is the definition of "afferent nerve fiber" :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferent_nerve_fiber

This short link explains how an inflammatory "soup" of various biological chemicals results in pain:

http://www.aic.cuhk.edu.hk/web8/prim...ociceptors.htm

This is a further article on efferent fibers... those going from the brain and spinal cord to muscles for movement:

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/cells.html

The Gallery of Neurons: their appearance:
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/gall1.html

This is the index to that site:
Lots of interesting things to click on and learn about! ;)

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html

Bumping up for new members:

MrsD -

A very helpful review and reference.
Thank you!
DejaVu