Neuroscience · Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience
A topic within Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
2 works
Marc Dingman (Neuroscientifically Challenged)
A short animated walkthrough of depolarisation, threshold and repolarisation aimed at a reader meeting the action potential for the first time.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Alan Hodgkin & Andrew Huxley
Reports the first intracellular recording of a nerve impulse, showing the action potential overshoots zero rather than merely abolishing the resting potential as had been assumed.