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 to Send a Spike Immediately Through the Brain
Hal nerons send their spikes because they have to get tens or huns of imputs from other murons enough to drive their voltage up. And that process can take quite a long time. So if we need to get some information from the outside world, from the eye, or later the prief on te cortex, and a matter of tens of mili seconds in order for us to react to it properly... then we can't rely on lerons going from their sort of resting state all the way up to creating a spike. That might take seconds, if not a couple of minutes, and we've only got ten somile seconds in which to process itseff.
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