{"id":190,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T19:57:31","slug":"nerve-impulses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"NERVE IMPULSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">An impulse begins in the nucleus of the neuron or cell with the movement of electrically charged inorganic molecules through the cell&#8217;s membrane. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This membrane is semi-permeable. It allows some charged molecules, known as ions, to pass\u00a0more easily than others. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\"><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Potassium<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"6px;\"> <span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(<span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">K+<\/span>), positive charge, is the most prominent ion that passes easily through a neural membrane in its resting state. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The resting potential in its base state is about a minus 70 mV relative to the outside. An equilibrium will result from the distribution of these ions on either side of the membrane. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The passage of a nerve impulse changes the equilibrium. <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">Sodium<\/span> (Na+), positive charge, and <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">chloride<\/span> (Cl-), negative charge, have more difficulty passing through.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Large, negatively charged molecules inside the cell cannot get out but do influence the membrane\u2019s electrical potential. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"6px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The <span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">calcium<\/span> ion (Ca++) plays also an important role in the chemical process of synaptic transmission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><span style=\"2px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><a href=\"?p=191\"><span style=\"color: #ffd700;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An impulse begins in the nucleus of the neuron or cell with the movement of electrically charged inorganic molecules through the cell&#8217;s membrane. This membrane is semi-permeable. It allows some charged molecules, known as ions, to pass\u00a0more easily than others. Potassium (K+), positive charge, is the most prominent ion that passes easily through a neural&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9187,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/9187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutyou.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}