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Common misconceptions in neurophysiology
1Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine
|March 18, 1992
Abstract:
An understanding of the mechanisms underlying nervous transmission is critical if we are to understand how anaesthetics work. In this review, I have concentrated on some areas of simple cellular neurophysiology that students often find puzzling: the relation between ionic concentration and membrane potential; how axonal and synaptic transmission differ; and presynaptic inhibition.