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Imagine a young boy

0 Transferred from school to school for constant

behavioral issues and an anti-authoritarian attitude

0 His rebelliousness leading him to be imprisoned at the

young age of 11, having destroyed a neighbors yard

gate with a homemade cannon

0 one day, only 4 years old, he was beating a horse

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Imagine a young man

0 an avid painter, artist and gymnast

0Trained to be a shoemaker and a barber

0Contracted Malaria and Tuberculosis

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Golgi Stained Neuron

where is she going with this????0 Golgi stained tissue

showing a neuron and its

neurites

0 Breakthrough in histology

allowing us to see the

ENTIRE neuron cell body

AND its extentions butonly 1-5% of the neurons

in a tissue sample could

be visualize via this

method..

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Lets Compare

Purkinje Cells in the Cerebellum(1899)

before the Electron Microscope???

HOW????

(1905)

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Ramn Cajal (1852-1934)0

Juvenile Delinquent0 an avid painter, artist and gymnast

0 Trained (by his father) to be a shoemaker and a barber

0

Spanish Pathologist, Histologist,Neuroscientist

0 Nobel Prize Laureate 1906:in recognition for their work on the structure of theNS

0 Father of Modern Neuroscience0 Founded the Neuron Doctrine

0 depictions of structures and theirconnectivity

0 Self Taught without a mentor

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Ramn Cajal (1852-1934)

Hippocampus

(1911)