Celula nervoasă: un veac de cercetare, revelații tulburătoare – omagiu academicianului Gheorghe Marinescu
-Nerve cell: a century of research, disturbing revelations – tribute to academician Gheorghe Marinescu

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to introduce the reader into the neuron’s gradual discovery since the late nineteenth century and it also become an opportunity to pay homage to the great Romanian neurologist, professor and academician Gheorghe Marinescu. Methodologically, this paper is a bibliographic study focused on two works that summarize the results of the neuron’ sci¬entific researches both at the begining of the XXth and XXIst centuries: 1. G. Marinescu, ‘Data and new research on the nerve cell’s biology’ (1916) and 2. R. Brillaud, L-Y. Bocquet, E. Abdoun, ‘Incroyables neurones!’ (2012). The results of the paper points out, on one hand, the major neu¬rological scientific contribution of the professor and researcher Gheorghe Marinescu in its period of time, and on the other hand, they introduce in neuroscience as it is perceived nowadays, mainly by interdisciplinary approach,while the neuro-continent goes on provoking, intriguing and defying researchers’ limits.

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