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Santiago Ramon y Cajal drawing of nerve cells.

Working with Cajal, Lorente de No studied the regeneration of nerve cells as may occur when we have accidents or diseases of the brain.  How much recovery the brain can achieve is still unknown.  Many of the neurons drawn by Lorente were in the cerebral cortex and brainstem.
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