The Dendrite Song
(sung to the tune of "Clementine" sent in by Leah B., a graduate student in elementary education at Long Island Univ.

Leah gives credit to Bruce Campbell for composing this song.)

Use your dendrites,
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain.
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.

Axons send out
Neurotransmitters
To the dendrites all around
Across the synapse
Jumps the impulse
New ideas can now abound.

Stimulation
Is what the brain needs
To make dendrites stretch and grow.
New connections
Make us smarter
In what we think and what we know.

Use your dendrites,
Use your dendrites,
To connect throughout your brain
Take in info, analyze it,
Grow some new ones
Unrestrained.

Lyrics:  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/songs.html

Graphic:  http://www.web-books.com/eLibrary/Medicine/Physiology/Nervous/Nervous.htm