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.

Scientists have discovered another molecule that plays an important role in regulating myelin formation in the central nervous system. Myelin promotes the conduction of nerve cell impulses by forming ...