A nerve impulse is also called an action potential.

But you cannot move something the size and mass of an arm faster than a nerve impulse can travel down it.

That outside information is, in any case, translated into the same kind of nerve impulses on its way to the brain.

In this way sound waves are transformed into nerve impulses.

Behavioral problems: nerve impulses must travel a long way from the brain to the body.

He tried to raise it, but the nerve impulses would not penetrate the brain.

The inner ear makes the nerve impulses that are sent to the brain.

These nerve impulses are sent to the brain, which "hears" them.

How long does it take for a nerve impulse to cross a synapse?

The sensation only occurs when the nerve impulse reaches the brain.