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Out of curiosity, are there any other neuroscientists out there who are bothered by the way biology textbooks describe how the resting potential is created and how an action potential works?
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Having taken a neurophysiology course and a fan of Gary Matthew's Cellular Physiology of Nerve and Muscle I haven't really found a lot of good sources that describe the true origins of the resting potential. I find a lot just saying that it's due to the Na/K pumps, but nowhere other than my courses have I seen the discussion about electrochemical gradients - which is the foundation for the resting potential - nor talks about changes in the conductivity of certain ions which literally is the entire resting and action potentials.

I know that in many ways the true origins are a bit more difficult to understand, but I think there's even bigger problems oversimplifying the entire resting potential to a Na/K pump.

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