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BS 186 Mark Humphries author of "The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds"

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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How the Spike or Action Potential Is Generated

Markweld has written a book about the brain and how it works. He says he wanted to give an ambitiously broad audience for his work. The most outline n the book is at it sir, you're following a spike on a journey through the brain. We follow spikes through the early visual aros, through the complicated aras higher up that the object recognition. And we follow them up to spikes up to the bits of it's at the front of the brain, in the midle of the brain. When onos, the cortex ther working out ilt around you and remembering what’s going on. Are making decisions and working ou whith things out in

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