Detailed drawing of the human cortex taken from Ramón y Cajal's Comparative study of the sensory areas of the human cortex. Top: Nissl-stained motor cortex of a human adult. Bottom: Golgi-stained cortex of a 1.5-month-old infant. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, LOOIE496
As both a scientist and an artist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal would surely have been blown away by the stunning "brainbow" images of neurons labeled in fluorescent technicolor that now grace the covers of many scientific publications. It’s even easier to imagine that this would be Cajal's reaction after you've watched Soldier of the Mind, a new drama by Australian barrister-turned-playwright Justin Fleming. The play was showcased as a staged reading last Friday (March 16) as part of the 14th Annual EST/Sloan First Light Festival at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City.
Fleming first learned of Cajal in 2011 through a serendipitous meeting with Daniel S. Margulies, now a neuroanatomist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, ...
