Neuroscience: Theory of Impulses, for Objective Pathology, in Mental Disorder

There is an article in The New York Review of Books, The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?, where the author stated that, “the brain contains billions of nerve cells, called neurons, arrayed in immensely complicated networks and communicating with one another constantly. The typical neuron has multiple filamentous extensions, one called an axon and the others called dendrites, through which it sends and receives signals from other neurons. For one neuron to communicate with another, however, the signal must be transmitted across the tiny space separating them, called a synapse. To accomplish that, the axon of the sending neuron releases…...