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    The neuron doctrine is the concept that the nervous system is made up of discrete individual cells, a discovery due to decisive neuro-anatomical work...
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    A neuron (American English), neurone (British English), or nerve cell, is an excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across...
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  • nervous tissue, like other tissues, is made of discrete cells. This neuron doctrine turned out to be the correct description of the nervous system, whereas...
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    the organization of the nervous system, inspiring the birth of the neuron doctrine. Ultimately, Ramón y Cajal improved the technique by using a method...
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    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906 for this work on the neuron doctrine. Several findings in the 20th century continued to advance the field...
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    reticular theory, disagreed with Ramón y Cajal in his view of the neuron doctrine. Before Ramón y Cajal's work, Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen had...
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  • Outline of brain mapping (category Central nervous system neurons)
    living cells. The Neuron doctrine postulates several elementary aspects of neurons: The brain is made up of individual cells (neurons) that contain specialized...
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    A neural circuit is a population of neurons interconnected by synapses to carry out a specific function when activated. Multiple neural circuits interconnect...
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    a system involving connected neurons (the "neuron doctrine"), and the ways in which signal transmission between neurons can be potentiated or depotentiated...
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    structures of individual neurons. His technique was used by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and led to the formation of the neuron doctrine, the hypothesis that the...
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    specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, neural circuits, and glia, and their behavioral, biological, and psychological...
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    first flight took place on December 1, 2012. The Dassault nEUROn of the European doctrine is a flying wing stealth UCAV project and is in the final phase...
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    conflict directly with the now predominant neuron doctrine, a model in which isolated, individual neurons signal to each other chemically across synaptic...
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  • single-neuron recordings) provide a method of measuring the electro-physiological responses of a single neuron using a microelectrode system. When a neuron generates...
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  • Neuron Doctrine". Endeavour. 37 (4): 228–234. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.06.006. PMID 23870749. Cimino, G. (1999). "Reticular theory versus neuron theory...
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    proposed that neurons are not continuous throughout the body, yet still communicate with each other, an idea known as the neuron doctrine. The word "synapse"...
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    predominated until the 1890s when Ramon y Cajal brought forth his neuron doctrine of synaptic junctions, which in essence replaced the reticular theory...
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  • Egyptian mummifications to 18th-century scientific research on "globules" and neurons, there is evidence of neuroscience practice throughout the early periods...
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    S2CID 11871228. Bock, Ortwin (2013). "Cajal, Golgi, Nansen, Schäfer and the Neuron Doctrine". Endeavour. 37 (4): 228–234. doi:10.1016/j.endeavour.2013.06.006....
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    lower marine creatures earned him a doctorate and helped establish neuron doctrine. Later, neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal won the 1906 Nobel Prize...
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  • nervous system at a higher level. (See also: Neuron doctrine) Thus the understanding of nerve cells or neurons in the brain is central to understanding the...
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    GM (1991). "Ch.1 : Introduction and Overview". Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506491-9. Piccolino, M (2002)...
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  • Evolution of nervous systems Neuroevolution History of neuroscience Neuron doctrine Category: History of neuroscience Outline of the human nervous system...
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  • structure of adult brains. Based on his renowned neuron doctrine, Cajal first described the neuron as the fundamental unit of the nervous system that...
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    PMC 3729404. PMID 19883998. Louis ED, Stapf C (November 2001). "Unraveling the neuron jungle: the 1879-1886 publications by Wilhelm His on the embryological development...
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  • doi:10.1037/10538-000. Shepherd, Gordon M. (1991). Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506491-7. "History of Neuroscience"...
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    late 19th century by Otto Deiters, coinciding with Ramon y Cajal's neuron doctrine. Allan Hobson states in his book The Reticular Formation Revisited...
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    nervous system were identified such as the neuron doctrine and brain localization, which related to the neuron being the basic unit of the nervous system...
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  • Communication, pp. 217–234, 1961 H. B. Barlow. Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Perception 1(4) 371 – 394, 1972 H. B. Barlow...
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    neurons. This was used by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and led to the formation of the neuron doctrine, the then revolutionary hypothesis that the neuron is...
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