Meet the Rosehip Cell, a New Kind of Neuron
It\u2019s been more than a century since Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ram\xf3n y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for illustrating the way neurons allow you to walk, talk, think, and be. In the intervening hundred years, modern neuroscience hasn\u2019t progressed that much in how it distinguishes one kind of neuron from another. Sure, the microscopes are better, but brain cells are still primarily defined by two labor-intensive characteristics: how they look and how they fire.