New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates

Santiago Ramon y Cajal; Neely Swanson; Larry W. Swanson

ISBN 10: 026218141X / ISBN 13: 9780262181419

Published by The MiT Press, Cambridge. Ma, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates
• Publisher: The MiT Press, Cambridge. Ma
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026218141X
• ISBN 13: 9780262181419
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition.

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Synopsis

Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) is widely thought of as the founder of modern neuroscience; and his work is more frequently cited than that of any other scientist in the field. In this seminal book, Cajal summarized for a broad audience the modem cellular view of brain organization. This clear, direct, and accurate translation provides an excellent introduction to Cajal's work, making accessible for the first time the ideas that led Cajal to favor the neuron doctrine that revolutionized neuroscience and won for him (with his rival, Camillo Golgi) the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1906.

New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates presents the histological evidence for the laws governing the form and connections of nerve cells. This work and the principles that emerged from it formed the cornerstone for our current understanding of how the nervous system is organized. The book also presents in simplified form the ideas contained in Cajal's famous survey of vertebrate neurohistology, Histologie du Systeme Nerveux de l'Homme et des Vertebres, unquestionably the most important book ever published in neuroanatomy, and which to this day has not been translated and published in English because of its extraordinary length.

Neely Swanson is a scholar of romance languages. Larry W. Swanson is Senior Member of the Salk Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

About the Author

Larry W. Swanson is Senior Member of the Salk Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.