Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Saltatory conduction is the ...

Nodes of Ranvier are important for rapid, saltatory nerve conduction. Although the molecular constituents of the nodes and paranodes are well established, how they are assembled is still a mystery.

Team of neurobiologists from Münster University publish their findings on the evolution of the glial sheath and rapid transmission of signals in neurons An animal’s brain consists of two different ...