What is Action Potential?

Ready for action? Time to get your neurons firing with some action potential. If you thought resting potential was tough to understand, it seems like action potential is that much more difficult. However, thanks to Alie Astrocyte, we find out that it's a lot like a crowd doing the wave! Join us as we continue to learn how your neurons send signals. Learn more about action potential: CrashCourse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZG8M_ldA1M Interactive Biology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnKMB11ih2o Big thank you to Leo Torres for translating this video and providing us with Spanish subtitles. You can find him on Twitter at @leocogsci or on his blog at https://leocogsci.wordpress.com/ Neuro Transmissions is a channel on a mission to bring neuroscience to everyone. It's not rocket surgery, it's brain science! Learn all sorts of fun and interesting things with Alie Astrocyte every other Sunday by subscribing to the channel. Over and out. Want more? We use other social media too! https://www.facebook.com/neurotransmissions https://www.twitter.com/neuroyoutube https://www.instagram.com/neurotransmissions https://alieastrocyte.wordpress.com Intro vector graphics from freepik.com Neuron images from Motifolio drawing toolkits (www.motifolio.com) Instrumental Ending Produced by Trackmanbeatz: www.trackmanbeatz.com The work by Trackmanbeatz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All other content is original and/or owned by Neuro Transmissions.