The Major Discoveries of Cajal and His Disciples: Consolidated Milestones for the Neuroscience of the XXIst Century

• Main Author: Miguel A. Merchan (auth)
• Other Authors: Fernando de Castro (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Neuron; Central Nervous System; Spanish Neurohistological School; Neuropathology; oligodendrocyte; Axon growth cone; glia; history of neuroscience; Microglia; Neurophysiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

When Santiago Ramón y Cajal started to unravel the fine structure of the nervous system in the last decades of the XIXth century maybe only his unbeatable soul of brave Spaniard imagined that most of the descriptions were scientific truths that lasted to date. Simple histological stainings, curiosi...