• Howarth (1975) - Heat Production in Non-Myelinated Nerves. A short review with comments.
• Gallup and Eldakar (2013) - The thermoregulatory theory of yawning- what we know from over 5 years of research. We yawn to cool our brain!
• Cohen et al (1970) - Changes in axon birefringence during the action potential. Suggestive of structural changes in the axon during the spike.

• Koser et al (2016) - Mechanosensing is critical for axon growth in the developing brain. It's not all chemical gradients! See also this cool review by Tomba and Villard (2015).
• Ingber et al (2014) - Tensegrity, cellular biophysics, and the mechanics of living systems. Physics of cell shape and mechanics.
• Armstrong and Cota (1991) - Calcium ion as a cofactor in Na channel gating. The effect of extracellular Ca2+ on Nav channels.
• Hille (1977) - Ionic basis of resting and action potentials. A nice review on the ionic theory of APs.

• Albrecht et al (2016) - Nanoscopic compartmentalization of membrane protein motion at the axon initial segment. On the AIS diffusion barrier.
• Pollack (2001) - Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life. This is a fascinating book I'm reading. Certainly wrong on many aspects, but still inspiring. The author's thesis is that cell water is structured by the charges on proteins (because water molecules are dipoles), and that provides alternative explanations for a number of phenomena, for example ion partioning (exclusion of Na+ from the cell).
• Kolata (1976) - Water Structure and Ion Binding- A Role in Cell Physiology? I stumbled on this very readable piece while reading Pollack's book.

• Catterall (2010) - Signaling Complexes of Voltage-gated Sodium and Calcium Channels. Very useful information for anyone interested in plasticity of excitability.
• Leterrier et al (2016) - Ankyrin G membrane partners drive the establishment and maintenance of the axon initial segment. Did I read plasticity of AIS diameter?
• Kratochvil et al (2016) - Instantaneous ion configurations in the K+ ion channel selectivity filter revealed by 2D IR spectroscopy. Showing how the K+ channel works (evidence for the “knock-on” model).

Back from holiday! Here are a few papers I noticed:

• Sigworth (1980) - The variance of sodium current fluctuations at the node of Ranvier. Estimating number of channels from noise statistics.
• Hu et al (2016) - DVS Benchmark Datasets for Object Tracking, Action Recognition, and Object Recognition. Vision benchmarks for spike-based computation.
• Marin et al (2016) - Reassembly of Excitable Domains after CNS Axon Regeneration. Medically interesting but also addresses an interesting fundamental question: how a neuron builds a functional organization of the initial segment.
• Howarth et al (1968) - The origin of the initial heat associated with a single impulse in mammalian non-myelinated nerve fibres. What produces heat during spike generation?
• Saal et al (2016) - Importance of spike timing in touch- an analogy with hearing.
• Koyama et al (2016) - A circuit motif in the zebrafish hindbrain for a two alternative behavioral choice to turn left or right. Includes a model of the escape reflex in fish (Mauthner cells).