Joseph von Gerlach
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Joseph von Gerlach was a German professor of anatomy at the University of Erlangen. He was a native of Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Gerlach was a pioneer of histological staining and anatomical microg
Joseph von Gerlach (1820-1896)
Reticular theory
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Reticular theory is an obsolete scientific theory in neurobiology that stated that everything in the nervous system, such as the brain, is a single continuous network. The concept was postulated by a
Joseph von Gerlach
…micrography. In 1858, Gerlach introduced carmine mixed with gelatin as a histological stain. Along with Camillo Golgi, he was a major proponent of the reticular theory that the brain's nervous system consisted of processes of contiguous cells fused to create a massive meshed network. Gerlach summed up his theory by…
Ramón y Cajal's illustration of the neuronal morphologies in the auditory cortex