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A neuron is a brain cell, the basic building block of the brain. The entire brain is actually a huge network of interlocking, interacting neurons. There are about one hundred billion neurons in the human brain and several times that amount of glial and other smaller cells that support neural function. A neuron is composed of a cell body, an axon, and a profusion of branching dendrites.