This tidy volume recounts an exciting and important piece of neuroscience history, when investigators strove to understand the basis of synaptic transmission. The recognition of Cajal's 'neuron ...

For example, keeping hold of a hot object requires a nerve impulse to be sent to the motor neuron of the reflex arc to interfere with the normal reflex action to drop the object.

Sometimes, subtle waves of calcium ions would pass through a neuron. These subtle waves were not enough to activate the ...