For anyone interested in how neurons do what they do, my new book “The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds” from Princeton University Press is available now from your favourite bookseller in hardback, ebook, and audiobook. 

 

It’s a rollercoaster ride through your brain, from eye to hand and everywhere in between, that sweeps through 30 years of the deepest neuroscience to the frontiers of what we know about how neurons work. 

 

>From the blurb: “We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions. Neuroscientists call these blips “spikes.” Spikes enable us to do everything: talk, eat, run, see, plan, and decide. In The Spike, Mark Humphries takes readers on the epic journey of a spike through a single, brief reaction. In vivid language, Humphries tells the story of what happens in our brain, what we know about spikes, and what we still have left to understand about them.” 

 

Watch the animated introduction: https://youtu.be/Rn-FAvM6wbE 

 

Read the reviews and details: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691195889/the-spike 

 

Listen to a sample from the audiobook: https://soundcloud.com/user-671277267/the-spike-by-mark-humphries?in=user-671277267/sets/pup-audio-tracks 

 

Thanks!
Mark Humphries 

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