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 ...

Saltatory conduction is the process through which the brain receives information from the five sense organs, which include the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin. When sense receptors in the sense ...

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.