The two-way distribution of nervous pulses open by hystologist AI Babukhin - the basis of the reticular theory

Reticular theory of the nervous system presupposes the electrical and tinctorial interrelation of neurons in the nervous system with the help of syncytial bridges in the brain and ganglion network formations. This means that the impulses spread in all directions along the path of the nervous branches. The neuronal theory presupposes complete cytoplasmic isolation of adjacent neurons. The basic position of the neural doctrine provides for a successive transition of the nerve impulse in one direction from one neuron to another, along a reflex arc. This «law of dynamic polarization» was formulated simultaneously in 1891 by two great neurohistologists Ramon y Cajal and Van Gehuchten. Later, this law seemed to be brilliantly confirmed by the discovery of mediator synapses using electron microscopy. Electron microscopy of chemical synapses allowed us to consider Cajal's neuronal theory as the only true and absolutely proven one. Neuronal theory confidently entered in the all textbooks and neurology manuals, and the theory of reticularism was recognized as erroneous and incorrect...