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Why does a message traveling along nerve pathways takes a long time

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Through impulses to the brain.... hope I helped
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Nerve pathways rely on the movement of positively-charged ions across the nervous cell membrane. ... Then, the nerve impulses must send neurotransmitters through the synapase to the dendrites of the following neuron.
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