For over a century, the neuron doctrine — which states that the neuron is the structural and functional unit of the nervous system — has provided a conceptual foundation for neuroscience. This ...

Cajal used the technique to produce the exquisitely detailed illustrations of brain cells that later formed the basis for his “neuron doctrine,” which stated that the neuron is the basic anatomical ...

3D reconstruction of the nerve net, comb rows, sensory cells, mesogleal neurons, and a tentacle from electron microscopy data of a 1-day old ctenophore. Credit: Pawel Burkhardt and Maike Kittelmann 3D ...

Though divided by fierce scientific rivalry — Golgi defending the idea of a continuous nerve network, Cajal championing the “neuron doctrine”, their discoveries together reshaped biology. Golgi’s ...

It is commonplace in public discourse to complain that one’s opponent continues to hold a fixed belief long after evidence to the contrary. The opponent either benefits from professing the belief, or ...

Researchers have evidence that a single gene controls both halves of nerve cells, and their research demonstrates the need to consider that design in the development of new treatments for regeneration ...

Researchers developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron, which could lead to new breakthroughs in ...

Ever since the work of scientists Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Fridtjof Nansen in the 19 th century, neurobiology research is interpreted through the lens of the neuron doctrine. This theory states that ...