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This Week in (Neuroscience) History

September 9

First International Conference on Music and the Brain (1977) - Pioneering symposium connecting neuroscience with music theory and practice, establishing a new interdisciplinary field.

Birth of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852) - Spanish neuroscientist considered the father of modern neuroscience who established that the nervous system is made up of discrete cells rather than a continuous network.

First Observation of Adult Neurogenesis in Humans (1998) - Researchers definitively identified the generation of new neurons in adult human brains, challenging the long-held belief that neurogenesis ceased after development.

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