Cajal’s contributions to vestibular research
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Espinosa Sánchez, Juan Manuel; Pérez-Fernández, Nicolás; De Castro, Fernando; Batuecas Caletrio, ÁngelEditorial
Frontiers Media
Materia
Cajal vestibular system history of neuro-otology
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2024-09-17Referencia bibliográfica
Espinosa Sánchez, J.M. et. al. Front. Neuroanat. 18:1476640. [https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2024.1476640]
Resumen
The Spanish neurohistologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) is widely
regarded as the father of modern Neuroscience. In addition to identifying the
individuality of cells in the nervous system (the neuron theory) or the direction
followed by nerve impulses (the principle of dynamic polarization), he described
numerous details regarding the organization of the different structures of the
nervous system. This task was compiled in his magnum opus, “Textura del
Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados,” first published in Spanish
between 1899 and 1904, and later revised and updated in French as “Histologie
du système nerveux de l’homme et des vertébrés” between 1909 and 1911 for
wider distribution among the international scientific community. Some of Cajal’s
findings are fundamental to our understanding of the anatomy and histology of
the vestibular system. He depicted the nerve endings in the sensory epithelia, the
structure of the vestibular nerve and Scarpa ganglion, afferent vestibular fibers,
vestibular nuclei, lateral vestibulospinal tract, vestibulocerebellar connections,
and the fine structure of the cerebellum. However, most of these pioneering
descriptions were published years earlier in Spanish journals with limited
circulation. Our study aimed to gather Cajal’s findings on the vestibular system
and identify his original publications. After this endeavor, we claim a place for
Cajal among the founders of anatomy and histology of the vestibular system.