Ra·món y Ca·jal

(rä-mōn′ ē kä-häl′), Santiago 1852-1934.

Spanish anatomist. He shared a 1906 Nobel Prize for his research on the nervous system, especially his theory that the neuron is its fundamental unit.

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Ramon y Cajal - Spanish histologist noted for his work on the structure of the nervous system (1852-1934)

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David Saceda-Corralo, M.D., Ph.D., from Ramon y Cajal University Hospital in Madrid, and colleagues used three tools (the Dermatology Life Quality Index [DLQI], the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS], and the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire [IPQ-R]) to examine dermatology-specific HRQOL, anxiety and depression, and perception of disease among 82 female patients with FFA.

Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia Negatively Linked to HRQOL; More than half of patients had some association between alopecia and health-related quality of life

Collaborative compiled and co-edited by the team of Roy Llera Blanes (Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council) and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic (Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh), "Being Godless: Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion" is comprised of an informative Introduction (Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism) and Afterword (On Atheism and Non-Religion), and six erudite and impressively written essays by experts in the field.

Being Godless

Rather, this striking image is one among the thousands of scientific images created by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of the most influential neuroscientists of all time.

"Unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory"

Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Pio Baroja, Gregorio Maranon y Antonio Vallejo Najera.

Sosa-Velasco, Alfredo J. Medicos escritores en Espana, 1885-1955. Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Pio Baroja, Gregorio Maranon y Antonio Vallejo Najera

Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Spain) and Morley (geriatric medicine and endocrinology, Saint Louis U.) compile 21 chapters by European and US specialists in geriatrics, neurology, and other medical fields who discuss sarcopenia and its definition, clinical relevance, nosology, pathophysiology, clinical identification, and treatment.

Sarcopenia

Researchers from the Hospital Ramon y Cajal in Madrid administered blood-sugar tests to 808 patients over the age of 60 who were admitted to hospitals in Spain and Italy.

High blood-sugar levels increases death risk in hospitalized elderly

Spanish physician and Nobel laureate Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852-1934) made important contributions to science.

How science should be done: insights from Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

What became known as Golgi's method was later used by Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal to reveal much about the organization of the nervous system.

Golgi's Door

De forma caracteristica, todos aquellos que nos dedicamos al estudio de la biologia y del funcionamiento del cerebro somos seguidores de otro Santiago, apellidado Ramon y Cajal. Este ano se cumple el centenario de que tan insigne investigador recibiese el Premio Nobel por su contribucion excepcional a la histologia y organizacion celular del sistema nervioso del hombre y de otras muchas especies animales, por lo que parece conveniente dedicar unas lineas al recuerdo de su legado.

Por el camino de don Santiago (1)