Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates : Volume I An annotated and edited translation of the original Spanish text with the additions of the French version by Pedro Pasik and Tauba Pasik /

This book, and the other two volumes to follow soon after, offer the scientific community the works and thoughts of Santiago Ramn y Cajal by the faithful rendition of the original Spanish version of the Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates (18991904), with additional facts contai...

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Main Author: Cajal, Santiago Ramón
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 1999.
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Table of Contents:
  • General concept of the nervous system
  • Review of research methods and resulting discoveries
  • Components of the nervous tissue
  • Morphology of nerve cells (Continuation)
  • Physiologic inferences from the morphology and connectivity of neurons
  • Structure of the nerve cell; Physiologic inferences based on the cell structure
  • Continuation of the physiologic interpretation of neuronal structure
  • Neuroglia
  • Nerve fibers
  • Neural centers; Spinal cord
  • Structure of the white matter of the spinal cord
  • Structure of gray matter
  • Commissural and funicular cells
  • Distribution of funicular cells in various regions of the gray matter
  • Sensory neurons, i.e. neurons with somata outside the spinal cord sending axons to the cord
  • Endings of peripheral processes of spinal ganglion cells
  • Central processes of sensory neurons
  • Neuroglia of the gray matter of the spinal cord
  • Physiologic inferences based on a new structural concept of the spinal cord; Reflex movements
  • Comparative histology of the spinal cord
  • Histogenesis of the spinal cord and spinal ganglia.