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Transmit sensory information from receptors to the spinal cord and brain.

Sensory neurons (also known as afferent neurons)

transmit motor information from the brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands.

Motor neurons (also known as efferent neurons)

They are found between other neurons and are the most numerous of the three types of neurons.

Interneurons