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Dr. Marin Padilla will donate all their scientific collection to the City of Jumilla (15/04/2016)

Professor of pathology and pediatrics, Miguel Marin Padilla, will donate to the City of Jumilla all your records.

So it has passed this morning the mayor of Jumilla, Juana Guardiola, in the presence of the Councillor for Public Health, Lucia Jimenez, and also a professor of pathology and jumillano anatomy, Guzman Ortuño, who accompanied him in this new visit the city where he was born 86 years ago.

Attending the gala awards ceremony of the Wine Quality Contest has been this time the reason for your visit.

The news of the donation of his legacy means that travel to Jumilla entire collection: "I do it in return for what this city has meant to me all my life," says Dr. Marin Padilla, who has listed some of the things with which account: "I have 4,500 preparations Golgi the human brain, the microscope I have used all my life, all my titles, a book I've written, as well as several studies that I would give them to this city to organize it a center where research on the human brain can move forward. "

For its part, the mayor said that: "This is great news, that excites me I feel very proud that someone who lived his first 10 years of life in Jumilla and currently resides so far, we always take in. Do not stop thinking back to this land. "

Juana Guardiola has shown her thanks and says it is not yet able to appreciate the great importance of this donation to Jumilla.

Neuroscientist brain, Miguel Marín Padilla, born in Jumilla, where he lived for ten years, until his father, a notary, was transferred to Cordoba.

"I came here without knowing how to read or write, but my brain full of unknowns to be solved," he says.

He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of Granada.

He was more interested in understanding the disease that sick, so he left the pediatric consultation in Cartagena, and in 1956, without knowing a word of English, went to New York.

It began as acting in a hospital in New Jersey.

Then she specializes in pediatric pathology in Boston, at the Mallory Institute, and then to Dartmouth.

In 1989, he was awarded the most important prize is awarded neuroscience in the United States: the Jacob Javits.

It took a while to believe that was true, I thought they were wrong to communicate.

It has always worked by hand, aided by a razor blade (following the methods of Cajal) for brain cuts, which stains after fixing them in silver.

So neurons begin to see in three dimensions, within the block, and how they communicate with each other.

Knowing what happens in the brain when it has been damaged much of the time of their research.

"We know nothing about Alzheimer's, epilepsy or autism because we are not interpreting the brain as it really is: it is made upside down," he says.

Marín Padilla is also Son of Jumilla and Gold Medal of the Region of Murcia.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla

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