Animal Electricity : : How We Learned That the Body and Brain Are Electric Machines / / Robert B. Campenot.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• VerfasserIn: Campenot, Robert B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.) :; 28 halftones, 31 line illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; 1. Animal Electricity --; 2. A World of Cells, Molecules, and Atoms --; 3. The Animal Battery --; 4. Hodgkin and Huxley before the War --; 5. The Mystery of Nerve Conduction Explained --; 6. Heart to Heart --; 7. Nerve to Muscle --; 8. Use It or Lose It --; 9. Broadcasting in the Volume Conductor --; 10. The Bionic Century --; Epilogue --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674089013; 9783110485103; 9783110485295; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674089013
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert B. Campenot.

Like all cellular organisms humans run on electricity. Cells work like batteries: slight imbalances of electric charge across cell membranes, caused by ions moving in and out of cells, result in sensation, movement, awareness, and thinking-the things we associate with being alive. Robert Campenot offers an accessible overview of animal electricity.