ABSTRACT
For these reasons, it would be useful to summarize what are, in the author’s opinion, the most important general concepts of cellular neuro physiology. These will be stated in a list of brief recapitulations. No attempt will be made to justify these principles anew (if that was not done ade quately to this point, the book has failed its intent). The principles will simply be presented ex cathedra. This particular list of general conclusions,
of course, reflects the personal biases, interests, and experiences of the author as well as the empirical findings surveyed in this text. Nevertheless, we hope that our perspective is relatively consistent with that of the rest of the neurophysiological community, and that this list will be a fair state ment of what most neurophysiologists would agree are the most important principles of the science today.
