Description
This book is a reprint of an English translation of Cajal’s original work, with abundant notes and commentaries by the editor. This text describes Cajal’s fundamental contributions to neuroscience, which continue to be important today. It accurately details Cajal’s ideas and data, and provides readers with the opportunity to learn what Cajal thought about his research career and the significance of his observations. Excerpts from Tello’s memorial lectures also provide a contemporary view of Cajal’s work. PART I: Cajal and Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System; Section I: Introduction to the Text; Editors’ Commentary; Material omitted from the Original English Edition; Section II: Cajal in his Own Words – Translations from Biographical and Other Works; Recuerdos de mi Vida, Volume 2, Chapter 19 (1917); Recuerdos de mi Vida, Volume 2, Chapter 21, (1917); Recuerdos de mi Vida, Volume 2, Chapter 22 (1917), and: Algunas Observaciones contrarias a la hipotesis syncytial de la regeneracion nerviosa y neurogenesis normal (1921) and Demonstration photographique de quelques phenomenes de la generation des nerfs (1926); neuronismo o Reticularismo?, 1933; Cajal y su Labor Histologica by J. F. Tello, 1935; Section III: Bibliography; PART II: Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System.
