Anatomy of Memory: The Hippocampus

The architecture of the hippocampus is revealed through Golgi staining, a technique that revolutionized our understanding of the cells that comprise the brain by allowing the visualization of individual neurons in detail, laying the foundation for modern neuroscience.

Ramon y Cajal, the grandfather of modern neuroscience, used this exact technique in the 1800s to describe the intricate and elaborate cells of the brain, called neurons.