Good morning

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Le Moulin de la Galette

Frederick Cayley Robinson (1862-1927)
Men, Women and Girls Standing in a Group Outside a Hospital

Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1969)
Railway station

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Vase of Chrysanthemums 1890

Jakub Schikaneder (1855-1924)
Ufer mit Straßenbahn 1924

Maximilien Luce (1858-1941)
La Rue des Abesses 1896

Ruo Li (1954)
Winter Bridge

August Eduard Schliecker (1833-1911)
A Small Town in the Rhine

Peder Mørk Mønsted (1859-1941)
Winter's Day In The Woods Charlottenlund 1918

Pyramidal neurons are among the few neurons in the brain that can be seen with the naked eye.



Calyces (left) resemble the base of flower petals. These cells help the brain perceive sound and locate where it's coming from. On the right, the labyrinth of the inner ear, which contains the sensory structures for balance and hearing.

What Einstein did for physics, a Spaniard named Santiago Ramón y Cajal did for neuroscience more than a century ago.

Back in the 1890s, Cajal produced a series of drawings of brain cells that would radically change scientists' understanding of the brain.

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