Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted – in a car accident, for example – one of the most common and worrisome is axon damage. Axons are the long stalks that ...

The axon initial segment (AIS) functions as both a structural and a functional bridge between neuronal input and output. The AIS is characterized by clustered voltage-gated Na + and K + channels that ...

You probably think of your nervous system as a kind of computer network, or some kind of electrical system that passes nerve impulses around. But in reality, the miraculous journey of a signal ...