Methods library · Neurons and physiology
Extracellular single-unit and nerve recording
Also called single-unit, microneurography, skin-nerve preparation, tuning curve
Recording the spikes of single neurons or fibres from outside the cell, in animals, explants and human nerves.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
31 lessons use this method.
Neuroscience
- The Map: How the Nervous System Is Organized
- Principles of Sensory Coding
- The Retina
- Visual Cortex
- Hearing and Balance
- Touch and Pain
- Smell and Taste
- Motor Units, Reflexes and Locomotion
- Descending Control and the Basal Ganglia
- The Cerebellum
- Feeding, Motivation and Reward
- Plasticity, Networks and Consolidation
- Attention, Executive Control and Decisions
Sensory Systems
- Sensory Neurons by Their Genes: the Atlas Era
- The Low-Threshold Mechanoreceptors
- Merkel Cells: Touch Receptors That Are Not Neurons
- Meissner and Pacinian Corpuscles: Flutter and Vibration
- Hairy Skin, Stroking and Affective Touch
- Where Touch Is First Processed: Dorsal Horn and Dorsal Column Nuclei
- Touch Over-reactivity in Autism Models
- Hot, Warm, Cool and Cold
- Proprioception: Sensing the Body's Own Position
- Forty Kinds of Ganglion Cell
- Computing Motion in the Retina
- Photoreceptors Across a Billion-Fold Range, and When They Fail
- Balance: Vestibular Hair Cells and Self-Motion
- From Glomeruli to Piriform Cortex
- Combining Senses and Predicting Them