When a baby sees the mom disappears, an electric signal is sent from the eye to the brain’s neurons. The neurons pass the signal down from one another through the different parts of the cells. The neuron sends the signal that the mother has disappeared from the soma down the axon. The axon then sends the impulse out the axon terminals through the synapses, the space between neurons. The impulse gets released as a chemical substance, called a neurotransmitter, through the synapse and the receiving neuron gets the signal through the dendrites. When the brain finally receives the impulse to the right part of the brain, it realizes that mom is gone and starts to wonder where she could have gone. Then almost immediately after she disappeared, she
