Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse"Two doctors, the warm Spaniard Cajal and the cool Italian Golgi, struggled first against scientific barriers and ultimately against each other to discover what brain cells looked like and how they managed to contact one another. Both did their most important research alone in tiny laboratories set up on their kitchen tables, and both made profound discoveries that led to their jointly winning the 1906 Nobel Prize. Yet one of them found his way into the microscopic forest of individual cells, while the other died convinced that the entire nervous system is a network physically connecting every brain cell directly to its neighbors."--Jacket. |
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Crazy Navarran | 38 |
A Laboratory in the Kitchen | 53 |
Cells Fibers and Networks | 66 |
The Black Reaction | 81 |
The Trench of Science | 98 |
Climbing Fibers and Basket Endings | 113 |
Sincere Congratulations Burst Forth | 130 |
The Prize | 148 |
Higher Magnification | 169 |
Have Grown Slow and Palsied | 197 |
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