Books by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
“The book details his first attempts at scientific investigation in the late 1880s—when his adaptation of Golgi’s stain of silver bichromate allowed the hitherto impenetrable thicket of neurons, axons, dendrites, and glia to be penetrated by the reazione nera, which picks out certain nerve cells to the absolute exclusion of others. Mapping of the fine structure of the nervous system had begun, and Cajal’s marvelous histologic drawings are scattered throughout the book.” Read more...
The best books on Clinical Neuroscience
Frederick Lepore, Medical Scientist
Interviews where books by Santiago Ramon y Cajal were recommended
The best books on Clinical Neuroscience, recommended by Frederick Lepore
We still don’t have a complete understanding of the ‘terra incognita’ that is the human brain, says Frederick Lepore—the noted US neurologist and author of Finding Einstein’s Brain—but we’ve made enormous breakthroughs over the past hundred years. Here, he selects five of the best books that detail the development of the strange and delicate study of clinical neuroscience through the eyes of its researchers.
