Thanks to these specialized messages, you are able to move your limbs and experience all sorts of sensations, like pain. Your ears, eyes, nose, tongue, and nerves throughout your body gather information about your surroundings and send it to the brain.

There are several kinds of neurons in your body, and each one of them is responsible for different things. For instance, your motor neurons tell your muscles that they have to move, while your sensory neurons process information from your senses and send it to your brain.

Other varieties of neurons manage automatic bodily functions such as breathing, shivering, keeping a regular heartbeat, and food digestion.