Brief history of neuroscience

  • 1839 Theodor Schwann proposes that tissues are made of cells
  • 1873 Camillo Golgi develops a method to stain nervous tissue
  • 1887 Cajal finds individual nerve cells in birds brains
  • 1936 Dale and Loewi discover synaptic transmission
  • 1949 Donald hebb postulates Hebbian learning
  • Hodgkin and Huxley propose their model of Action potential generation

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