Mark Humphries is Chair in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham. He is the founding editor of The Spike, a Medium online publication. He lives in Sheffield, England. Twitter @markdhumphries
"""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biomedicine, Association of American Publishers"" ""[A] vivid tale."" * New Scientist * ""Humphries has woven together strands of experimental results and theoretical insights to compose a book that is engrossing, excites the imagination, beautifully encapsulates contemporary neuroscience in a light and breezy package, and points the way to future discovery.""---Sean Noah, Knowing Neurons ""A thorough and interesting description of what we know and don't know about neural spikes, as well as why they matter.""---R. Forbes-Lorman, Choice"