10-Minute Neuroscience: Action Potentials
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Video Introduction

This video is adapted from: https://youtu.be/TUOSCEVt6HI?si=ycX_FDuN3vO9tmdK

In this video, I cover the basics of the action potential beginning with an explanation of membrane potential and how it sets the stage for the action potential. Then, I describe how an action potential is generated and how it ends. I cover the propagation of an action potential down the axon and the role myelin plays in this process. Finally, I discuss the absolute and relative refractory periods and what they mean for repeated action potential firing. [1][2][3]

Key points:

00:00 Introduction

0:17 Membrane potential

4:18 Action potential

7:20 Propagation down the axon and role of myelin

8:51 Absolute and relative refractory periods

References
  1. Bean BP, Koester JD. 2021. Propagated Signaling: The Action Potential. In: Kandel ER, Koester JD, Mack SH, Siegelbaum SA, eds. Principles of Neural Science, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  2. Koester JD, Siegelbaum SA. 2021. Membrane Potential and the Passive Electrical Properties of the Neuron. In: Kandel ER, Koester JD, Mack SH, Siegelbaum SA, eds. Principles of Neural Science, 6th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  3. Pinel JPJ. 2014. Biopsychology. 9th ed. New York: Pearson.
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