For example, here I am predicting the action potentials, or the spikes, that are fired by one of these neurons when the dragonfly sees the prey move.

例如，我在这里预测当蜻蜓看猎物移动时，其中一个神经元发射了动作电位或脉冲。

The initial action potential accounts for 1 to 5 milliseconds and synaptic transmissions only take 0.1 to 0.5 milliseconds, so the bulk of that time is spent within the axons.

产生最初运动电位占用了 1 5 毫秒，触传播仅需 1 至 5 毫秒，所以大块时间用在了神经。

Normally, electrical signals, or action potentials, travel down the axon to the axon terminal, where they trigger the release of chemical messengers called neurotransmitters from synaptic vesicles into the synapse.

通常情况下，电信号或动作电位通过传递末梢，从而刺激化学信号分子（神经递质）从触小泡释放触间隙。

When the action potential travels down one of those tubes, it eventually triggers the voltage-sensitive proteins that are linked to those calcium channels on the cell's sarcoplasmic reticulum.

当动作电位通过其中一个管子时，它最终会触发与细胞肌浆钙通道相连电压敏感蛋白。

Action potentials can travel as quickly as 100 meters per second, which is about 224 miles per hour for us non-metric system users.

动作电位可以以每秒 100 米速度传播，对于我们非公制用户来说大约是每小时 224 英里。

Since chloride has a negative charge, it makes the inside of a cell more negative, and that inhibits an action potential.

由于氯离子带负电，这可导致细胞内负电荷积聚，来抑制动作电位。

So, the key factors that determine how quickly you think include how long it takes to generate an initial action potential; propagate it down the length of the axon; and transport it through the synapse.

所以，决定你思考速度关键因素包括最初产生动作电位，以及将它一路下传，再通过触来进行传输时间。

Medications like lidocaine or Xylocaine, which you typically get at the dentist or for some minor procedures, basically block the opening of voltage-gated sodium ions, which means that you can't really have those action potentials spread.

像利多卡因或昔洛卡因这样药物，通常会在牙医那里或一些小手术中使用，基本阻止了电压门控钠离子开放，这意味着你无法让动作电位扩散。

But how we experience our six major special senses all boils down to one thing: sensory cells translating chemical, electromagnetic, and mechanical stimuli into action potentials that our nervous system can make sense of.

但是我们如何体验我们六种主要特殊感官都归结为一件事：感觉细胞将化学、电磁和机械刺激转化为我们神经系统可以理解动作电位。

An action potential is an electrical signal that races down the axon, and triggering the release of neurotransmitters or a chemical signal on the other end.

动作电位是一种沿传递电信号，它可激活末梢神经递质这种化学信号释放。

So now we've paused on one motor action potential that's happening right now inside of your brain.

我们现在暂停在此时此刻正在你脑内一个运动电势。

So once again, it all boils down to action potentials.

所以再一次，这一切都归结为动作电位。

The first is that a fever raises the core body temperature, and it makes neurons more excitable than usual, meaning that action potentials are more likely to happen.

首先，发热导致了身体核心温度升高，这会使神经元比平常更容易兴奋，即更容易产生动作电位。

These compounded factors can raise the speed of an action potential as high as 432 kilometers per hour.

这些复合因素可以将动作电位提速至每小时 432 公里。

They transmit signals down their axons by way of electrical impulses, or action potentials.

它们通过电子脉冲或动作电位把信号向下传递给神经。

Since calcium has a positive charge, it makes the inside of the cell more positive, and that helps trigger an action potential.

由于钙离子带正电，这可导致细胞内正电荷积聚，来触发动作电位。

My brain sends an action potential along the motor neuron until it synapses with a muscle cell in my arm.

我大脑沿着运动神经元发送动作电位，直它与我手臂肌肉细胞触。

Excitatory neurotransmitters depolarize the postsynaptic neuron by making the inside of it more positive and bringing it closer to its action potential threshold, making it more likely to fire that message on to the next neuron.

兴奋性神经递质通过使触后神经元内部更加积极并使其更接近其动作电位阈值来去极化触后神经元，使其更有可能将该信息发送下一个神经元。

Myelin is extremely important to neurons, because it helps to allow an action potential to propagate much faster.

髓鞘对于神经元十分重要，因为它可以极大地加速动作电位传播。

Since some of these neurons can be very long, especially ones that go from the spinal cord to the toes, the fact that myelin helps speed up action potentials is super important.

由于一些神经元非常长，例如有些神经元从脊髓一直延伸至脚趾，所以髓鞘加速效果十分重要。