A public lecture by Dr Mousab

Azzawi at Academy House Cultural Centre (London), in which Dr Mousab Azzawi

provided simplified scientific answers to the following questions: 

1. What are the three main parts of the nervous system? 

2. What is the spinal cord? 

3. What is the peripheral nervous

system? 

4. What are the neurones? 

5. What are the effects of physical injuries and damage to neurons? 

6. What is the anatomy

of a neuron? 

7. What are the types of neurons we have in our bodies? 

8. How are neurons created by stem cells? 

9. How do neurons communicate? 

10. What are the types of neurotransmitters we have in

our bodies? 

11. What are the

agonist and antagonist drugs? 

12. What

are hormones and how they work in the endocrine system?  

13. What are the similarities between neurotransmitters and hormones? 

14. What are the types of hormones we have in our bodies? 

15. How the bidirectional link between behaviours and hormones works?