Science Visualized Neuroscience

Famous brain sketches come to life again as embroideries

Volunteers re-create iconic drawings by Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal

embroidery of pyramidal neurons

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s detailed drawings clarified the idea that the brain holds individual nerve cells. Here, pyramidal neurons were stitched by Jane Haley, the scientific coordinator for Edinburgh Neuroscience.

Jane Haley/Cajal Embroidery Project

By Laura Sanders

- More than 2 years ago

In the late 1800s, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a Spanish brain scientist, spent long hours in his attic drawing elaborate cells.