
New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 10. August 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
211 pages
978-0-262-51936-6 (ISBN)
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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 the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1906.Santiago Ramón 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 Vertébrés, 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 18 years
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-51936-6 (9780262519366)
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Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Man and Vertebrates
Foreword by Larry W. Swanson, Translation by Neely Swanson and Larry W. Swanson
Book
08/1990
MIT Press
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Foreword
University of Southern California
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University of Southern California