Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates: Volume I

by Santiago R.y Cajal, Pedro Pasik (Editor), P. Pasik (Translator), Tauba Pasik (Editor), T. Pasik (Translator)

Overview

Most scientists agree that the 21st century will be the "Century of Biology". The revolution that started a few decades ago with the extraordinary develop­ ment of molecular biology, has provided the basis for the understanding of the mechanisms that govern life through the regulation of cell function and cell-to­ cell interactions. Neuroscience will surely be one of the biological disciplines that will profit the most from this revolution. Neuroscience comprises the study of the brain, and the more difficult relationship of brain and behavior. It is indeed a very broad field of investigation that, from molecular biology and genetics, passing through systems physiology, functional mapping of the brain, and even human behavior, has as the ultimate goal the understanding of how the brain works. The importance of this aim is immense, since it is the only scientific approach to understanding ourselves. Today, owing to the great progress made in neuroscientific research, there is a real hope that highly complex processes such as sensory perception, ICTlg­ term memory, learning and others will soon be comprehended in their entirety.

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ISBN-13:	9783709164358
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2012
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Table of Contents

General concept of the nervous system.- Review of research methods and resulting discoveries.- Components of the nervous tissue.- Morphology of nerve cells (Continuation).- Physiologic inferences from the morphology and connectivity of neurons.- Structure of the nerve cell; Physiologic inferences based on the cell structure.- Continuation of the physiologic interpretation of neuronal structure.- Neuroglia.- Nerve fibers.- Neural centers; Spinal cord.- Structure of the white matter of the spinal cord.- Structure of gray matter.- Commissural and funicular cells.- Distribution of funicular cells in various regions of the gray matter.- Sensory neurons, i.e. neurons with somata outside the spinal cord sending axons to the cord.- Endings of peripheral processes of spinal ganglion cells.- Central processes of sensory neurons.- Neuroglia of the gray matter of the spinal cord.- Physiologic inferences based on a new structural concept of the spinal cord; Reflex movements.- Comparative histology of the spinal cord.- Histogenesis of the spinal cord and spinal ganglia.

Editorial Reviews

"... Über die vorliegende Übersetzung des ersten Bandes der 'Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y de los Vertebrados' läßt sich nur Positives berichten. Das Buch ist sowohl Medizinhistorikern und Neurowissenschaftlern, insbesondere Neurophysiologen und Neuroanatomen, zu empfehlen. Es ist äußerst interessant wie Ramón y Cajal zu seiner Zeit Neuronen, Gliazellen und Nervenfasern u. a. beschrieb, analysierte, interpretierte und vor allem zeichnete. Die kritische und vergleichende Diskussion sowohl der Morphologie als auch der Physiologie ist auch noch aus heutiger Perspektive beispielhaft ... " Annals of Anatomy/Anatomischer Anzeiger, 1/2000

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