When the tree falls in the mirror neuron of a young medic it does not make much sound. One such moment was in the Kilpauk Medical College library dense silence jungles. Santiago Ramón y Cajal was one such towering Spanish father tree competing for attention with all the silences and the abstract thoughts of the Banyans of the Kilpauk medical college Campus. Every medical college and their tree counterparts share the similar storylines speaking volumes about the formative years of the young medics.
How Ramón y Cajal’s legacy shaped the world’s to come is a feat in itself. Along with the the crops and plants that had value in the enriching the diversity champions life style, the tree model illustrations of ‘Santiago Ramón y Cajal ‘ was the most sought after all. The arborescent dendritic branches of ‘ Ramón y Cajal’ can be aptly referred to the ‘mirror trees’ as the arrangement mirrors the most efficient tree arrangements in a forest to intertwine and communicate with each other. The 'Mirror Neuron' which receives it name for mirroring the motor functions fails to capture the essence of the dendrites, that mirror the deep evolutionary designs of the nervous system. The art of branching that takes place in the lungs, vascular systems, kidneys and other organs do mirror the same essence but the branching models of the nervous tissue takes a special interest in keeping up the spirits of the trees. ‘Dendrite’ is the branching of a tree sounds as strong and clear as ‘ Vaginum’ is the floral sheath.
My personal bias is in remaining attracted to this dream of how the pre-morbid rowdy of a fellow can convert his angst to raise to the position of a father of modern neuro-anatomy is not limited by time. How far can the disaffected go with this pointlessness of the situation without the champions of social institutions? How far the temples, hotels, churches and families are conducive to promote the healing spaces is what should reverberate perpetually...
The single neuron minded theoreticians of the West who wield the authority by blinding themselves to the sounds, musics, emotions of the disaffected, present themselves with a humongous gap that dictates the needs for its own remedies from the STEM [ Science, Engineering , Technology and Mathematics] industries and training industries of modern Post colonial Psychiatrists.
