The Effects of Temperature on the Nervous System

Small number of nerons and the fact that it's very easy to record from them electro physiologically, means that it's been possible to do experiments it would be very hard to do in a larger nervous system. One of the things we've been doing most recently is studying the effects of temperature as a perturbation on the motor patterns in the stemati gastric nervous system. Temperature makes biological molecules do their job more quickly. But if each of those components responded to temperature differently, you might imagine that as you start changing temperature, the whole system would crash or no longer be able to work. That's just the first of a number of fundamental problems that we've studied using this nervous