The politics of identity is a kind of cultural politics. It relies on the development of a culture that is able to create new and affirmative conceptions of the self, to articulate collective identities, and to forge a sense of group loyalty.
Neurons transmit electrical impulses by allowing the passage of charged ions across their membranes in response to stimuli, changing the charge of the neuron in a process that propagates through the axon of the neuron. Normally, neurons maintain an internal negative charge relative to their environment by excluding sodium ions from their cytoplasm.
The brainâs great computational abilities are derived from the communication among its billions of nerve cells. But the process of neural conduction that lets a nerve impulse propagate down a neuron would serve no purpose if it were not coupled with another mechanism: the synaptic transmission that lets the impulse pass from one neuron to the next. At the synapse between two neurons, they do not actually touch each other.