More than three decades after the German biologists Theodore Schwann and Matthias Schleiden first proposed that the cell was the basic functional unit of all living things, in 1838, many of the ...

From the vantage point of today ― a time when neurosurgeons regularly resect brain tissue to cure disease and rely on high-tech neuroimaging techniques to make diagnoses ― it's hard to conceive of an ...

He impregnates formalin-fixed nervous tissue sections with potassium dichromate and silver nitrate, causing microcrystals of silver chromate to fill in the delicate dendrites and axons of neurons. The ...

Neurobiology profoundly influences our lives, impacting our health, thoughts, emotions, and behaviours (see How Our Neurobiology Shapes Our Daily Lives; Pang, 2023). Despite its importance, our ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal is often referred to as the ‘father of modern neuroscience’ due to his studies on microscopic anatomy, ...