The branch of physiology that studies how the brain and its cells work, including electrical activity, chemical signals, and brain function.
From Latin cerebrum (brain) + Greek physio- (nature, function) + -logia (study of). A 20th-century coinage combining older terms to name an emerging scientific discipline.
Cerebrophysiology gave us the discovery of action potentials—the electrical sparks that fire through your brain billions of times per second—one of biology's most beautiful findings.
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