Models and Mindsets for Teaching Neurophysiology

 

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2000, Volume 21

Abstract

This mini-workshop presentation involves hands-on activities in which participants put together and manipulate home-made, 3-D models of voltage-gated spike channels (both Na+ and K+ channels). The models are made of common, everyday materials. They have moveable activation and inactivation gates whose workings tie in closely with the known behavior of voltage-gated channels that mediate Na-based action potentials in neurons and other electrically excitable cells, as presented in physiology texts.

Keywords:  ion channel, sodium channel, potassium channel, voltage, neuron

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1999)