Santiago Ramón y Cajal Exhibit

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Ricardo Martínez Murillo, who heads the Neurovascular Research Group within the Translational Neuroscience Department of the Instituto Cajal in Madrid, Spain, is pictured in front of NIH's recently dedicated neuroscience research center where the exhibition of Ramón y Cajal original drawings is located.

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A new wave of research and exploration is beginning within these walls with new support for the creation of a new arsenal of instruments for unlocking the mysteries of the brain through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.  This moment may be the most appropriate to look back over the accomplishments of the last century and anticipate those of the next.    

Santiago Ramón y Cajal

May 1, 1852 – October 17, 1934

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The Cajal illustrations currently on-view include: 

• Auditory Tracts
• Axonal Tracts in Rat
• Cajal-Astrocytes
• Cajal Astrocytes
• Cerebral Cortex-ii
• Interneuronal Plexuses
• Medulla

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