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the gaps existed. In a lecture Cajal gave when presented with the 1906
Nobel Prize (which he shared with Golgi), Cajal said, “It would be very
convenient and very economical from the point of view of analytical ef-
fort if all the nerve centres were made up of a continuous intermediary
network between the motor nerves and the sensitive and sensory nerves.
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for conve-
nience and unity, and very oft en takes delight in complication and diver-
Neuron A, shown at left, receives synaptic inputs from many neurons
and sends its axon to make synapses with neuron B and others. Exten-
sions called dendrites branch out from the cell body—the soma—and
are the sites of many synapses. (One synapse is shown magnifi ed.)
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