%0 Journal Article
%T Epilogue: Cajal's unique and legitimated School
%A Juan Lerma
%A Juan A. De Carlos
%J Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fnana.2014.00058
%X Santiago Ram¨®n y Cajal is recognized as the founder of modern neuroscience, his discovery¡¯s representing the fundamental pillars of our current understanding of the nervous system. As Cajal's career spanned a critical period in Spanish history, he witnessed strong social demands for progress in culture, education and science. Indeed, the life of Santiago Ram¨®n y Cajal can be considered to reflect the gradual development of Spanish science from the last third of the 19th century. Cajal promoted a national movement that had important consequences for Spanish science, mainly triggered by the creation of the ¡°Junta para Ampliaci¨®n de Estudios e Investigaciones Cient¨ªficas¡±, an instrument he established to enrich scientific research and that was later to bear such abundant fruit. The school generated by Cajal profited from this development, through which all Cajal¡¯s disciples received fellowships to train in laboratories across Europe. Unfortunately, the Spanish Civil War disrupted this revitalization of Spanish science and provoked the diaspora of many Spanish scientists. However, a political impulse, mostly following this spirit, was resumed in Spain during the eighties that successfully led to a renaissance in Spanish science.
%K Cajal¡¯s School
%K Spanish Neuroscience
%K JAE
%K plasticity
%K Dendritic Spine
%K Synapse
%K Growth cone
%K Carcinogenesis
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2014.00058/abstract