
10/10/2025
On this World Mental Health Day, we honor the legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Santiago Ramón y Cajal is considered the father of modern neuroscience. In 1906, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. He is best known for the Neuron Doctrine, which theorizes that the nervous system is composed of discrete individual cells. This finding has influenced our understanding of how the brain works.