What is Resting Potential?

How is your brain like a battery? When our neurons aren’t firing, what do they do? Resting potential can be a very difficult concept to describe, but Alie Astrocyte breaks it down to the basics so that anyone can understand it! Join us as we start to learn how your neurons send signals.

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[serahwang]

Literally saved a psychology student trying to learn the biology part of the course. Thank you!

[aSnowyEvening]

I am in a Cognitive Neuroscience course, studying for the first midterm. We covered Action Potential so many times and it confused me so much - we never mentioned Resting Potential. It makes SO MUCH SENSE to have this as background knowledge first! Thank you for these videos, they are continuing to help students years later!

[PoseidonXIII]

The production value on this video is top notch. I can tell a lot of hard work went into making it, awesome job!

[fatimawaqar]

This video is so simple and easy to understand! Thank you so much!

[SavdiaT]

the music in the beginning was perfect! put me in a good mood. (: 😂

[ABDULLAH-lkuy]

at 2:25 isn't Cl- outside the cell rather than inside, and Anions which are macro proteins supposed to be trapped inside the cell ??

[FailMachineInc]

I love the series. Thank you for creating these videos.

[maddieshirley]

Thankyou so much for this video!! Im super out of my depth in an anatomy and physiology unit at the moment and my lecturer made absolutely no sense explaining this but after watching your video I think I actually get it now! Thanks again!!

[MassAmorphous]

Awesome video. Awesome selection of books! I'm going to have to read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close again; what a story!

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[EconaelGaming]

Ok so you showed K+ leaving and re-entering the cell. How does this build a potential?
Isn't it the active ports which build potential by pumping ions against the gradient?

[Pants]

I know sometimes the terms anode/cathode can depend on context, but isn't the cathode supposed to be negative and the anode positive?

[samikshyathapa]

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