Physics of Biology

    

The Axon: Restructuring Waves and Electrical Currents

Authors: Lev I. Verkhovsky

An article “The Brain, Reimagined,” by Douglas Fox (Sci. Am.,v.27, No 3, Fall 2018) concerns work by physicists T. Heimburg and A.D. Jackson, who argue that signals in neurons are conveyed by mechanical waves of expansion and contraction of the cell membrane rather than by electrical spikes, or action potentials, as described by the Huxley-Hodgkin theory. But the chief provisions of this theory are firmly established. Hypothesis on the honeycomb structure of the lipid biomembrane by Dr. R.-H.N. Mikelsaar makes it possible to remove the contradictions between these two concepts.

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