Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish scientist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for his pioneering studies of the microscopic structures of the brain. His famous drawings of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum depict a forest of neuron structures, with multiple large branches sprouting from the cell body and splitting into lovely, leaf-like patterns.…
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Cerebellum Structural Changes Linked To Multiple Mental Illness Forms
Individuals exhibiting symptoms that cross over many types of mental illness consistently exhibit differences in unexpected regions of the brain, new research from Duke University shows. The brain regions are the cerebellum, or “little brain,” and the pons, structures that are traditionally known for helping us coordinate complex movements. Having a single mental illness like…