This compilation brings together 20 essays of Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the neuroscientist par excellence and 1906 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, on topics beyond neuroanatomy, most appearing in English for the first time. The annotated collection makes available in one handy volume Cajal's ideas on psychology, art and education, still current and still relevant, derived from his books La Psicologia de los Artistas, Charlas de Cafe, El Mundo Visto a los Ochenta Anos, Pensamientos Pedagogicos and Escritos Ineditos. An acute observer of the intellectual and social scene of the...

From the pen of the versatile Spanish Nobel Laureate, Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934), the visionary of science, also known as the "Don Quixote of the Microscope," comes this unfinished fantasy dream, written around 1880. The text appears in English for the first time, accompanied by a brief editorial annotation. Inspired by Claude Bernard's discussion of the 'resurrection' of Rotifera and Tardigrada, Cajal dreams of having stayed inside a forgotten coffin as a desiccated spore; he awakens after an earthquake, becomes rehydrated by a rain shower, and meets Doctor Micrococcus, a...

This monograph is a scholarly catalog of the scientific works that the ingenious neurobiologist Christofredo Jakob (1866-1956) published between 1893 and 1949. Jakob worked in the fields of comparative and evolutionary neuroscience, biology, anthropology, and biogeography. A native of Bavaria, and physician by training, he served as professor of neurobiology at the Universities of La Plata and Buenos Aires in Argentina from 1899 until his retirement in 1945. The covers and title pages of his 52 books are reproduced in color. A complete list of his 260 articles, with full bibliographic...

The book comprises biographical notes, of about 1000 words each, with a portrait photo, of 90 influential figures of the famous prewar Viennese school of neuropsychiatry, appearing together for the first time in a single volume. The entries focus on the academic lives and scientific contributions of pioneers in the neurological sciences viewed from a modern perspective. These updated profiles are based on substantial new research. The book includes a wide range of people, some famous Nobel laureates, and others less well known, from the era when Vienna was the epicenter of brain research....