Bioelectricity

AY2014/2015 Semester 2

Man-made electronic circuits use electricity to process and transmit information. Biological organisms use electricity for the same purposes. Topics covered include the equivalent electrical circuit of cell membranes, the mechanisms responsible for generation of electrical spikes (action potentials) in excitable cells and qualitative modeling for this process, and bioelectrical phenomena in physiological processes such as vision, hearing, touch, muscle contraction, heart beating and thought.