The Human Brain

Here you can read about the human brain and depression. We'll be telling you about things like:

• Sensory cells and other nerve cells
• Neurotransmitters

The brain is a communication centre

The human brain has countless functions, all having something to do with communication. The brain is:

The most intricate and complex communication centre in the world

10 billion brain cells send billions of messages every second. This means that the brain contains more connections than all the computers on the Internet.

Behaviour and language

Our senses receive a constant stream of information from the outside world. We also send information into the outside world by means of our behaviour and language.

Everything we say, everything we do and everything that goes on in our bodies depends on internal communication between our nerve cells.