Long description

This is a composite of two highly detailed black and white drawings of neurons. Image (a) shows a single large and very elaborate neuron. It has a tree-like structure, with a blob-shaped cell body, an axon projecting downwards, and numerous highly branched dendrites forming the tree ‘canopy’. Image (b) consists of three drawings showing ‘forests’ of neurons appearing in horizontal layers. The layers can be distinguished by differences in the density of the neurons. Within each layer there are cell bodies of neurons and for some layers, the axons can be seen running vertically from one layer to the next. The drawing on the right particularly gives a sense of a dense connectivity between neurons.