Neural Conduction, Action Potential, and Synaptic Transmission

We have probably heard that neurons are the cells that transmit information around the body. But how does this work? Is it actual electricity? Like from the wall socket? What is a synapse? What happens there, in between one neuron and the next? This is a really big and really important topic, so let's dive in.
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  • @lijack3425
    @lijack34254 жыл бұрын

    More understandable and efficient than reading 20 pages of my textbook :)

  • @sreemohansharma5954

    @sreemohansharma5954

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sadly term exams gonna ask qn frm txtbook

  • @anaghasunilkumar4906

    @anaghasunilkumar4906

    3 жыл бұрын

    Plese share the notes on neurotransmission

  • @TheNutCollector

    @TheNutCollector

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sreemohansharma5954 You're right about that. I wish we were tested on understanding, not what we can regurgitate from a textbook.

  • @spidey285

    @spidey285

    Жыл бұрын

    That's what it's all about!

  • @spidey285

    @spidey285

    Жыл бұрын

    @Sreemohan Sharma well at least now you can go through the material twice as fast (at least) and it'll be much easier to remember the key points and maybe even details! Just as long as you don't make excuses of course 😉

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    @ReiverBlue19712 жыл бұрын

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  • @joanneyazigi8977
    @joanneyazigi89774 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dave! Honestly this saved me. I have a practical on Monday and we are required to know pretty much everything you explained on action potential. This is great. THANK YOU!

  • @bradsillasen1972
    @bradsillasen19723 жыл бұрын

    I've been watching and reading a lot about this topic but nothing compares to your presentations. The sophisticated graphics alone must take countless hours to create, let alone all the research you must be doing for all your material. Pretty mind-boggling in and of itself! Thanks for the hard work. I'll be signing up and donating on Patreon in the near future.

  • @toekneesee
    @toekneesee4 жыл бұрын

    This is such a great video; explains everything so well, and leaves no leaps of faith! Love how you included how "chemistry happens in picoseconds". Thanks Dave!

  • @maimahdi7373

    @maimahdi7373

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I loved that too, cuz I was wondering about it, like there’s so much going on in our neurons and signals travel all these distances like. I AM WOWED

  • @bronwyngroves9781
    @bronwyngroves97813 жыл бұрын

    You are a life saver for a first year speech pathology and audiology student! these videos and the sound wave explanations have saved me!! thank you!!!

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    @blerine33 жыл бұрын

    I want to add another comment, THIS IS SUCH A GREAT VIDEO!!! I understand the concepts different receptors but most times, I cannot picture the connection and how it happens (how it jumps from one type of receptor to the next). THANK YOU SO MUCH

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    @Demothones4 жыл бұрын

    I literally just started learning this stuff this week. Great timing.

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    @Arjun-ho8tl3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir,I was searching this topic for 12 hrs and I could not arrive at the right place ,untill I clicked this video.your work is Very understandable and useful.Really helped me!🔥🙏

  • @jillli245
    @jillli2453 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so so much sir. I wish my professor could explain as clear as you did here. I've watched a lot of your videos before and they all helped me a lot.

  • @studymateanushka8679
    @studymateanushka8679 Жыл бұрын

    My biopsychology teacher took 1 week to clear this topic and you finished it in 20 minutes amazing 🤩😍

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    @user-te6se3jj8k5 ай бұрын

    This is the most helpful videoseries i've come across for understanding biopsychology. Thanks a lot!

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    @monalizacastillo70233 жыл бұрын

    This covers all of my questions. Perfect! I didn’t have to sit in class for hours.

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    @charmmorningstar7530 Жыл бұрын

    omg of all videos, this is the most informative and easy to understand. i have weekly A&P Exam and this is our topic. Thank you so much!!!❤❤❤

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    @luizatosi8323 Жыл бұрын

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    @blerine33 жыл бұрын

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    @dianaprincessansah25246 ай бұрын

    great piece of work, very detailed explanation and easier to understand, thanks alot Dr.

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    @rishasarkar46573 жыл бұрын

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    @fehdivina42827 ай бұрын

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    @heltiswelt Жыл бұрын

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    @humanhiveanomaly4 жыл бұрын

    Came here from professor Dave's post. Good vid and more so interesting to an EE. "Oh electrochemistry, what will you come up with next..."

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    @NostressAdi3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! This finally makes sense.

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    @dhandapanibalasubramanian1813 Жыл бұрын

    Nice understandable explanations. Thanks

  • @aclearlight
    @aclearlight3 жыл бұрын

    Great content! It might be worth updating at some point to reflect emerging sense that cimpressional/acoustic waves in lbl and cytoskeleton are also playing a role.

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    @shambhaviupadhyay77192 жыл бұрын

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    @user-gj3gn4ph8h4 ай бұрын

    superb illustration

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    @mansirajyaguru94782 жыл бұрын

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  • @gaoxoxo
    @gaoxoxo3 жыл бұрын

    I am reading this in my biopsychology textbook right now, and I didn’t understand ANY of it until I watched this video.

  • @johnmiguelsadiasa7510
    @johnmiguelsadiasa75102 жыл бұрын

    thank you professor Dave!

  • @deborahr9188
    @deborahr91883 жыл бұрын

    Prof. Dave, I want to thank you for your excellent work and the quality of your videos, which has helped many students who are currently in remote education. However, I believe that it is not offensive that I point out a flaw in the content: the sodium-potassium pump does not only turn on at the end of the action potential, but has intermittent activity and is more active in repolarization, as sodium is stimulating for its functioning ; refractory periods also do not occur after the end of repolarization, but at the moment that repolarization begins, since the absolute refractory is caused by the return of the sodium channels to the resting shape, and the relative refractory is due to the membrane's hypernegativity , and therefore would need an additional voltage to cause premature potential and action. Despite this small point.. it"s a very great job!!

  • @AnzzCheatedOnMarkWithHaechan
    @AnzzCheatedOnMarkWithHaechan3 жыл бұрын

    Finally undetood how action potential happen Thank you so much ❤️

  • @mesibra2976
    @mesibra29764 жыл бұрын

    I really like your videos even though I can’t understand everything bcz I’m not a native English speaker which makes it hard for me to get everything clearly .. but your videos still so helpful . I appreciate your efforts , thank you so much .

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    @kiruthikabalasubramani8874

    4 жыл бұрын

    Turn on ur captions too :)

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    @sivachidambaram279

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kiruthikabalasubramani8874 hi

  • @momnatabassam-0244
    @momnatabassam-02442 ай бұрын

    It was really helpful. For the first time neuro was easy for me to study.

  • @rileyrich4090
    @rileyrich40903 жыл бұрын

    Great explanation, I almost can relate to everything you said, lol so much information. Good thing that’s what our brain is for. To hold information. Great job from the U.S.

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    @myatthuswe60933 жыл бұрын

    amazing explanation thank you

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    @ashcam17918 ай бұрын

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    @juinishat77363 жыл бұрын

    Thank u sir,this is really helpful.

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    @mrkps19862 жыл бұрын

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    @The_Broken_Smile Жыл бұрын

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    @santicruz40123 жыл бұрын

    I was drinking water when 7:46 suddenly appeared lol Another great video just when I needed it the most, thanks proffesor!

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    @MaNnAt_DHimAn2 жыл бұрын

    nicely explained thanks

  • @Hasty_Bahadin
    @Hasty_Bahadin3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you professor dave

  • @josephhubbard4332
    @josephhubbard43324 жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure voltage-gated potassium channels opening at the depolarization threshold is accurate. It would have to move against both electrical potential and concentration gradients to make the intracellular potential more positive and literature seems to suggest that it is either calcium or more sodium gates

  • @Somuntioalt
    @Somuntioalt2 жыл бұрын

    This is great! I was reading an article about electrophysiology, and I needed a quick refreshment of the matter. This helped a bunch! Super well explained!

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    @monadir012 жыл бұрын

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    @qball29293 жыл бұрын

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    @toothextractionmadeeasy2142 жыл бұрын

    It happens in milliseconds millions of times in every activity we do. And he took 15 minutes to explain its summary. Only one word. Great teacher ❤️ And subhan Allah

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    @AyseY

    Жыл бұрын

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    @jamaicacolumbres71543 жыл бұрын

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    @timothyvanpelt_cyclist3 жыл бұрын

    Content of tremendous value, you often fill in the gaps of concepts I'm trying to understand. I think one point could be made more clear in this video. Based on most other sources I have, voltage-gated sodium channels only start opening quickly at around -55mV (threshold value) and voltage-gated potassium channels at around +30mV. But, for example in the figure at 10:50, you show and say the potassium channels open at -55mV. I'm trying to get this clear for myself, so maybe this is of help! I'd also like to suggest a video about saltatory condunction in detail! :D

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    @ubimumu

    2 жыл бұрын

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  • @xCrash57x
    @xCrash57x2 жыл бұрын

    May i ask when is the action potential generated? Surely if the neurotransmitter is inhibitory, it wpuldn't stimulate the voltage gated Na+ and K+ channels to open at all - so what would happen if the summation was overall hyperpolarising? Is this vid assuming the NT is excitatory? I would have guessed the action potential would be generated after the ionotropic channel reached threshold value but im unsure.

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    @gilnarrahmoun71943 жыл бұрын

    00:25 the signals don't go from hands to spinal cord and then to the brain?

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    @user-eu8xd3ux7f3 жыл бұрын

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    @ciscobriano4 жыл бұрын

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    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    4 жыл бұрын

    everything is organized nicely into playlists, go to my home page and see.

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    @TheHHPodcastАй бұрын

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    @zartashakhan60312 жыл бұрын

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    @dedelsmann18722 ай бұрын

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    @charron1152 жыл бұрын

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    @pritipoddar90253 жыл бұрын

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    @ferielferiel2005Ай бұрын

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    @charlotteshi4 жыл бұрын

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  • @nursepotassium
    @nursepotassium3 жыл бұрын

    I thought that resting state: Na and K gates closed. depolarization phase: Na gates open but K gates still closed repolarization phase: Na gates close and K gates open Then the Na/K pump: brings in back from hyperpolarization to RMP??????? That's how my professor taught it...is it wrong?

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    @cesarosorio105710 ай бұрын

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  • @kurrs177
    @kurrs1772 жыл бұрын

    is there a transcript of this?

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    @SherlockHolmes221B.4 жыл бұрын

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    @thomasruwart17224 жыл бұрын

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    @yourfavouritescepticx89692 жыл бұрын

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  • @jayita1523
    @jayita15232 жыл бұрын

    Can anyone tell me what is the need for action potential? Does it help in faster transmission of the nerve impulses?

  • @organizedbiology

    @organizedbiology

    Жыл бұрын

    The action potential itself IS the achievement of electrical transmission-that is, once the neuron reaches its threshold potential, sodium ions will rush in, leading to a rapid transmission of an electrochemical impulse down the axon. It certainly helps the speed of transmission-as does the myelination of those axons, which insulated the signal and makes it go faster, similar to wires in our homes.

  • @h4hashir
    @h4hashir2 жыл бұрын

    Where’s the neurotransmitter video? Was it ever made?

  • @aleshiukas
    @aleshiukas4 жыл бұрын

    What happens between the membranes ? And why certain diseases which thickens membrane makes slower signaling ?

  • @ProfessorDaveExplains

    @ProfessorDaveExplains

    4 жыл бұрын

    Between which membranes? I'm not aware of anything that thickens membranes, I would assume they are of fixed width, as phospholipids are of a fixed length.

  • @aleshiukas

    @aleshiukas

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ProfessorDaveExplains At kzread.info/dash/bejne/rHx-lcpvZ5jUfs4.html I can see several membranes/coath, where in-between is a thick area. Or this is just a symbolic image and membrane is thru the whole axon in one piece ? As matter membrane thick, there are several demyelination processes regarding neuro diseases (multiple sclerosis, gulian-barre syndrome etc..)

  • @fernsader9261

    @fernsader9261

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@aleshiukas the demyelination would denature both the protein and membrane layers along the mylin sheath layers which would rupture the tissue, therefor affecting the action potential of the cells, and reducing cognitive ability. but all of this if one were to state it the way your trying to understand it, is technically DECREASING the density or thickness of the sheath.

  • @fernsader9261

    @fernsader9261

    4 жыл бұрын

    I am not aware of increases in neuron growth as neuronal cells are stagnant and do not replicate. If they do it is very rare and through the use of extensive oxygen induction.

  • @aleshiukas

    @aleshiukas

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@fernsader9261 Im asking why demyelination slows down messages sent along axon comparing the healthy nerve with a normal myelin coath.

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    @SCIPROlearning3 жыл бұрын

    👍 great

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    @TheHHPodcastАй бұрын

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