Learn about Neurophysiology and Nerve Impulses by completing the following lab simulation.
Objectives:
- To define the following: irritability, conductivity, resting membrane, potential, polarized, sodium-potassium pump, threshold stimulus, depolarization, action potential, repolarization, hyperpolarization, absolute refractory period, relative refractory period, nerve impulse, compound nerve action potential, and conduction velocity.
- To list at least four different stimuli capable of generating an action potential.
- To list at least two agents capable of generating an action potential.
- To describe the relationship between nerve size and conduction velocity.
- To describe the relationship between nerve myelination and conduction velocity.
