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03477aam a2200457 i 4500 001 9EE1FC00468F11E7B6F4D8AFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170601010022 008 150508s2016 maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015014359 020 $a 0674736818 020 $a 9780674736818 035 $a (OCoLC)906121711 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YAM $d NLM $d CHVBK $d LMR $d ZLM $d VP@ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QP341 $b .C36 2016 060 00 $a 2016 C-191 060 10 $a QP 341 082 00 $a 612.8/13 $2 23 100 1 $a Campenot, Robert B., $d 1946- 245 10 $a Animal electricity : $b how we learned that the body and brain are electric machines / $c Robert B. Campenot. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xii, 340 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-327) and index. 505 0 $a Animal electricity -- A world of cells, molecules, and atoms -- The animal battery -- Hodgkin and Huxley before the war -- The mystery of nerve conduction explained -- Heart to heart -- Nerve to muscle -- Use it or lose it -- Broadcasting in the volume conductor -- The bionic century. 520 $a "Like all cellular organisms, humans run on electricity. Slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking--nearly everything we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers a comprehensive overview of animal electricity, examining its physiological mechanisms as well as the experimental discoveries that form the basis for our modern understanding of nervous systems across the animal kingdom. Cells work much like batteries. Concentration gradients of sodium and potassium cause these ions to flow in and out of cells by way of protein channels, creating tiny voltages across the cell membrane. The cellular mechanisms that switch these ion currents on and off drive all the functions associated with animal nervous systems, from nerve impulses and heartbeats to the 600-volt shocks produced by electric eels. Campenot's examination of the nervous system is presented in the context of ideas as they evolved in the past, as well as today's research and its future implications. The discussion ranges from the pre-Renaissance notion of animal spirits and Galvani's eighteenth-century discovery of animal electricity, to modern insights into how electrical activity produces learning and how electrical signals in the cortex can be used to connect the brains of paralyzed individuals to limbs or prosthetic devices. Campenot provides the necessary scientific background to make the book highly accessible for general readers while conveying much about the process of scientific discovery. 650 0 $a Electrophysiology 650 0 $a Biophysics 650 0 $a Electricity $x Physiological effect. 650 7 $a Biophysics $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00832656 650 7 $a Electricity $x Physiological effect. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00906277 650 7 $a Electrophysiology $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00907701 650 12 $a Electrophysiological Phenomena 650 12 $a Animals 650 7 $a Bioelektrizit�at $2 gnd 650 7 $a Elektrophysiologie $2 gnd 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214052744.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20170601010356.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9EE1FC00468F11E7B6F4D8AFDAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IX2Initiate Another SILO Locator Search