Action Potential... In Action

Created by Dana Kotler and Joy Gibson, two dancers/medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, this film attempts to reconstruct, in painstaking detail, an action potential from dendrite to synaptic bouton. 30 medical student performers portray dendrites, post-synaptic potentials, ion channels, neurotransmitter, and of course, myelin. Original music, "The Dendrite of Spring," was composed by Mark Goldin.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• action
• potential
• neurosience
• neuron
• dance
• performance
• art
• AECOM
• einstein
• medicine
• student

[genericvideo1]

This was the most disturbing thing I have ever seen in my life, I cut my self.

[Rudidood]

I like the protein synthesis version more.

[CloakedDeception]

Awesome!

[CloakedDeception]

@skindermeredith If your students ever make a dance like this, be sure to post it!

[MumuLovelace]

the music was great!

[kaykentucky]

i think i prefer animation lol

[lastweekssocks]

omg I have an exam on this tomorrow, this made my day lol

[Mintyflip]

terrible name pun. haha

[Exkwsit]

i learned this stuff this quarter...this would probably have made it more fun than just lecture and reading it

[kryptonite1029]

9 minutes of my life i will never get back....