1 Roadmap for Quality Measurement in the Traditional Medicare Fee-for-Service Program [PDF, 3MB]. 2  Roadmap for Implementing Value Driven Healthcare in the Traditional Medicare Fee-for-Service Program [PDF, 3MB]. 3  Medicare Resource Use Measurement Plan [PDF, 3MB].
When a nerve signal, or impulse, reaches the ends of its axon, it has traveled as an action potential, or a pulse of electricity. However, there is no cellular continuity between one neuron and the next; there is a gap called synapse.
Neurons communicate at structures called synapses in a process called synaptic transmission. The synapse consists of the two neurons, one of which is sending information to the other. The sending neuron is known as the pre-synaptic neuron (i.e. before the synapse) while the receiving neuron is known as the post-synaptic neuron (i.e. after the synapse). Although the flow of information around the brain is achieved by electrical activity, communication between neurons is a chemical process.