Garrido Eduardo
Hypobaria and Biomedical Physiology Unit, Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Barcelona-Bellvitge Campus, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
Front Neuroanat. 2024 Jul 18;18:1408783. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2024.1408783. eCollection 2024.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) revolutionized the branches of neuroscience in a forceful way, and he did it with extreme delicacy and candor. His scientific writings and drawings are full of allusions to Nature, a fact that demonstrates how he saw, understood and enjoyed it with exquisite sensitivity and pressing emotion. Neuroscience awakened in him the utmost curiosity to delve into the powerful mysteries of the mind, and neurohistology allowed him to satisfy his deepest concerns for fascinating scenarios, a desire not sufficiently fulfilled throughout the fields, mountains and forests of his childhood and youth. Through that wonderful microscopic world Cajal changed the size of the dreamed landscapes but not the dimension of the longed-for adventures. Exploring and entering unknown paths he unraveled some of the greatest enigmas that the nervous system hid, but he would do so with a deep feeling toward the infinite beauty that Nature itself offered him. In short, Nature was the vital axis of Cajal's overwhelming and complex personality, his most genuine essence and the inexhaustible source of inspiration where he poured his imagination and fantasy. He became a vocational adventurer, an insatiable explorer, a talented artist and an exquisite humanist. An eminently romantic soul who knew how to link Nature and Neuroscience with unconditional and perpetual emotionality.
圣地亚哥·拉蒙·伊·卡哈尔（1852 - 1934）以强有力的方式彻底改变了神经科学的各个分支，而且他是以极其细腻和坦诚的态度做到这一点的。他的科学著作和绘图中充满了对自然的暗示，这一事实表明他是以何等细腻的感受力和强烈的情感去看待、理解并欣赏自然的。神经科学在他心中唤起了深入探究心灵强大奥秘的最大好奇心，而神经组织学则让他得以满足对迷人景象的最深切关注，这种渴望在他童年和青年时期的田野、山峦和森林中都未能充分实现。通过那个奇妙的微观世界，卡哈尔改变了梦中风景的规模，但并未改变对渴望冒险的维度。他探索并踏入未知之路，解开了神经系统隐藏的一些最重大谜团，但他这样做时带着对自然本身赋予他的无限美的深深情感。简而言之，自然是卡哈尔那压倒一切且复杂的个性的重要轴心，是他最本真的本质，也是他倾注想象力和幻想的无尽灵感源泉。他成为了一名职业冒险家、一个永不满足的探索者、一位有才华的艺术家和一位高雅的人文主义者。一个极具浪漫情怀的灵魂，懂得将自然与神经科学以无条件且永恒的情感联系起来。
