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Animal Electricity

How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

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Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking—the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.

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This is a good book. Its mix of schoolroom electricity and sophisticated cell biology is highly eccentric but this, I think, speaks much in Campenot’s favor.
-- Simon Ings New Scientist

Dr. Campenot's writing is clear and effective and conveys the excitement of scientific discovery and the fascinating complexity of the living organism.
-- Jonathan Dostrovsky, Department of Physiology and Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto

A beautifully written, authoritative, and thoroughly engaging account of the electrical properties of nerve cells and what they accomplish. All of us—but especially students—will be reminded of the way progress understanding the nervous system actually unfolds, today's hyperbole notwithstanding.
-- Dale Purves, M.D., Geller Professor of Neurobiology, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    ix
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    Introduction

    1
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    1. Animal Electricity

    17
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    2. A World of Cells, Molecules, and Atoms

    43
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    3. The Animal Battery

    75
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    4. Hodgkin and Huxley before the War

    105
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    5. The Mystery of Nerve Conduction Explained

    133
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    6. Heart to Heart

    163
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    7. Nerve to Muscle

    185
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    8. Use It or Lose It

    221
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    9. Broadcasting in the Volume Conductor

    255
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    10. The Bionic Century

    289
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    Epilogue

    311
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    Notes

    317
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    References

    319
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    Acknowledgments

    329
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    Index

    331
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February 15, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9780674089013
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348
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28 halftones, 31 line illustrations
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https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674089013
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