Altes und Neues über die Plastizität des Nervensystems

Overview or "underview"? Comment on Satz and Fletcher's "Emergent trends in neuropsychology: An overview."

“…Bastian concluded that "this plasticity is greatest in children though it continues to a diminished extent well on into adult life and is present still for varying periods even long beyond middle age" (Bastian, 1898, p. 342). Bethe (1926), an outstanding experimental neurologist, defined plasticity as a change in the functional organization (or a reorganization) of the central nervous system, permitting the recovery, preservation, or development of specific motor functions after destruction of "motor centers" in vertebrates.…”

Domingo Sánchez y Sánchez (1860–1947): Cajal’s man on the nervous system of invertebrates

“…At the beginning of 20th century, Bethe (1901), von Apáthy (1907 and Dogiel (1899) gave new wings to reticularism by proposing nerve continuity by means of neurofibrils and joined Golgi's side who considered that "one single nerve fibre may have connections with an infinite number of nerve cells, as well as with completely different parts of nerve centres which may be a long way from each other" (Golgi, 1906;López Piñero, 2006;Shepherd, 2016). Apháty's article (1907) questioned and criticized the results of Cajal and his neuronism theory.…”