Are Neurons Just Electric Circuits?

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The action potential allows neurons to talk to each other and to other cells in the body. It's a process we can make easier to understand by modeling it as an electric circuit. That's exactly what the Hodgkin-Huxley model does! Let's learn how it works.

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TIME CODES

00:00 Cold Open
00:52 History of Electrophysiology
04:18 What is a Nerve?
06:23 Hodgkin-Huxley Model
10:16 Action Potentials
11:26 Bringing it all together
14:13 Outro
14:30 Sponsor Message
15:55 Featured Comment
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Corrections:

10:11 Technically, each of the circuit components of the Hodgkin-Huxley circuit do not represent a single component in the cell. It's more accurate to say the circuit components represent a population of the cell components.