Looking and Drawing

Neutron Landscape features a selection of images of the nervous system from Cajal's times to our own day, showing that the importance of studying the nervous system lies not only in its function and links to many pathologies, but also in the beauty of the images that can be obtained using both traditional and modern methods to reveal the brain's structure and function.

We still use Cajal's methodology: Looking and Drawing, Looking and Photographing, Looking and Interpreting. The brain is the human being's most important organ, as it serves to govern our bodies and our behaviour, as well as enabling us to communicate with other living beings. Thanks to the brain's extraordinary development and evolution, we are capable of performing such highly complicated and inherently human tasks as writing books, composing symphonies, inventing the computer, etc. Looking and Drawing contains drawings by some of the outstanding pioneers in neuroscience such as Cajal, Golgi, K?lliker, Retzius, Nissl and Alzheimer. These drawings are extraordinary important, not only for their beauty and indisputable value as museum pieces, but also as faithful copies of histological preparations showing the nervous system's micro-organization, like a map detailing neuron connections and the routes that nervous impulses follow through them.

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