INTRODUCTORY SURVEY OF NEURONS
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We would all undoubtedly agree that a neuron is characterized above all by its interrelationships with other cells. For this reason the microscopic level of organization of nervous tissue has maintained a continuing importance in scientific thinking about nervous activity since the epoch-making revelations of the microscope which led to the neuron doctrine. The cellular level of organization has served since that time as a level of reference for investigations at higher or macroscopic levels, whether psychological or physiological, and at lower or submicroscopic levels, whether physiological, chemical or biophysical. We may suppose that the organizers of the Symposium tried to make certain that the histological level of reference would not be neglected when they asked me to introduce the subject of the neuron. In accepting this dubious assignment, I was under no illusion that I could hope to encompass more than a fragment of the histological complexities of nervous...
