Child Neuroscience

What is Psychiatry and How Can We Improve It? In the last hundred years, most of the medical sciences have progressed in immense and unforeseeable ways―except for psychiatry, which has somehow remained immune to this progress. Daniel Barron, a psychiatrist who trained at the Yale School of...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s father, the village doctor, wants Santiago to be a doctor. He discourages his son’s love and aptitude for art. But drawing and painting are as necessary to Santiago as breathing, so when his father confiscates his art supplies, the boy finds a way to draw in secret. He draws on doors, gates, and walls, and to the neighbors, his drawings are a nuisance. But Santiago sees things differently. He’s an artist and always will be, even after he grows up and becomes a doctor. And art helps him discover what no one else could: branching connections within the nervous system.

El padre de Santiago Ramón y Cajal, el médico del pueblo, quiere que Santiago también sea médico. Desalienta la aptitud y el intenso amor que su hijo siente por el arte. Pero, para Santiago, dibujar y pintar son tan necesarios como respirar. Así que cuando su padre le confisca sus materiales de arte, el niño encuentra la forma de dibujar en secreto. Dibuja en puertas, porterías y paredes, pero sus dibujos incordian a los vecinos. Sin embargo, Santiago ve las cosas diferente.