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there's some disturbance in the membrane near you,
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not right where you're standing but near you there's a disturbance.
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That disturbance might be a number of events
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but what we've thought about so far is that
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there's a neurotransmitter that binds.
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Somewhere upstream of you there's a neurotransmitter that binds
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to a receptor and it creates a change in membrane potential.
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A small change in membrane potential,
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but you feel it.
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When you feel it at your sight
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there's also these voltage sensitive sodium channels
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that exist in the membrane around you