Types of Neurons -- Motoneurons -- Vertebrate Peripheral Sensory Neurons -- Neuroendocrine Cells -- Interneurons -- Electrical Properties of Nerve Membrane -- The Source of UM Electrical Parameters -- Decremental Conduction on Dendrites: The Space Constant -- Active Membrane: The Nerve Spike -- Saltatory Conduction on Myelinated Axons -- Synapses: epsps and ipsps -- Chemical Synapses -- Electrical Synapses -- epsps and ipsps -- Quantal Release of Neurotransmitter -- Models for the Nerve Action Potential -- The 1952 Hodgkin-Huxley Model for Action Potential Generation -- Properties of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model -- Extended Hodgkin-Huxley Models -- Selected Examples of Sensory Receptors and Small Receptor Arrays -- The Generalized Receptor -- Dynamic Response -- Receptor Nonlinearity -- Receptor Sensitivity -- A Model for Optimum Firing Threshold -- Simulation of a Model Receptor with a Continuously Variable Firing Threshold -- Chemoreceptors -- The Vertebrate Olfactory Chemoreceptor -- Olfaction in Arthropods -- Mechanoreceptors -- Insect Trichoid Hairs -- Insect Campaniform Sensilla -- Muscle Length Receptors -- Muscle Force Receptors -- Statocysts -- Pacinian Corpuscles -- Magnetoreceptors -- Behavioral Evidence for Magnetic Sensing -- The Putative Magnetoreceptor Neurons of Tritonia -- Models for Magnetoreceptors -- Electroreceptors -- Ampullary Receptors -- Weakly Electric Fish and Knollenorgans -- Gravity Sensors of the Cockroach, Arenivaga sp -- Hartman's Methods -- Hartman's Results
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