{"id":8553,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neuron_doctrine\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:57","slug":"neuron_doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neuron_doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuron doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The extension of cell theory to nervous system by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/37954\/title\/The-Neuron-Doctrine--circa-1894\/\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/37954\/title\/The-Neuron-Doctrine--circa-1894\/?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santiago Ramon y Cajal <\/a>(1832-1934) following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/1846.html\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.whonamedit.com\/doctor.cfm\/1846.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Heinrich Waldeyer<\/a>. &nbsp;It has two main theses, which form the basis of modern neuroscience:&nbsp;1. the nervous system is composed of discrete units or cells, called neurons, that are both structurally and functionally discrete in having their own membranes and functioning as a fundamental signalling units, 2. the connections between these units is highly specific. &nbsp;The doctrine was first proposed by Waldeyer in the 1890s and then developed into its present articulation by Cajal using the cell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.vt.edu\/education\/curriculum\/vm8054\/Labs\/Lab2\/Examples\/exgolstn.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.vt.edu\/education\/curriculum\/vm8054\/Labs\/Lab2\/Examples\/exgolstn.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staining technique<\/a> discovered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.vt.edu\/education\/curriculum\/vm8054\/Labs\/Lab2\/Examples\/exgolstn.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.vetmed.vt.edu\/education\/curriculum\/vm8054\/Labs\/Lab2\/Examples\/exgolstn.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Camillo Golgi <\/a>(1843-1926), and combining the neuron concept with the synapse concept put forward by Charles S. Sherrington (1857-1952). &nbsp;At the time, the doctrine stood in stark contrast to existing theories that depicted the nervous system as an amorphous collection of cell bodies that essentially shared a common cell membrane and thus no specificity of connections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cell_theory\">Cell theory<\/a>, <a href=\"final_common_pathway\">Final common pathway<\/a>, <a href=\"neuron\">Neuron<\/a>, <a href=\"neuroscience\">Neuroscience<\/a>, <a href=\"synapse\">Synapse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extension of cell theory to nervous system by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1832-1934) following Heinrich Waldeyer. &nbsp;It has two main theses, which form the basis of modern neuroscience:&nbsp;1. the nervous system is composed of discrete units or cells, called neurons, that are both structurally and functionally discrete in having their own membranes and functioning &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neuron_doctrine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neuron doctrine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}