“Discovering the Neuron” | Advances in the History of Psychology

Neurophilosophy, which recently moved over to the well-respected Science Blogs portal, yesterday posted an excellent feature about the discovery of the neuron.

Cajal, 1888

Believe it or not, this image was published by Ramon y Cajal in 1888. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, with Camillo Golgi, in 1906.

See also:

Abraham, T. H. (2003). From theory to data: Representing neurons in the 1940s. Biology and Philosophy, 18(3), 415-426.
Glickstein, M. (2006). Golgi and Cajal: The neuron doctrine and the 100th anniversary of the 1906 Nobel Prize. Current Biology, 16(5), R-147-R151.
Jones, E. G. (1999). Golgi, Cajal and the Neuron Doctrine. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 8(2), 170-178.
Katz-Sidlow, R. J. (1998). The Formulation of the Neuron Doctrine: The Island of Cajal. Archives of Neurology, 55(2), 237-240.
Køppe, S. (1983). The psychology of the neuron: Freud, Cajal and Golgi. Scandanavian Journal of Psychology, 24(1), 1-12.
López-Muñoz, F., Boya, J., & Alamo, C. (2006). Neuron theory, the cornerstone of neuroscience, on the centenary of the Nobel Prize award to Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Brain Research Bulletin, 70(4-6), 391-405.