Nerve Signalling: Tracing the Wiring of Life
Mapping the nervous system. One of the first of the great pioneers of nerve research to receive the Nobel Prize, a Spanish surgeon's son called Santiago Ramón y Cajal said, "The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory." And towards the end of the 19th century that is how it must have appeared as the power of the microscope ...