Abstract: Modern neuroscience began from all reaching and fierce conflict between “neuronismo and reticulismo” – between neuronal and reticular theories of the organization of the nervous system; the conflict culminated in December of 1906 in Stockholm where Santiago Ramon y Cajal (the proponent of the neuronal doctrine) and Camillo Golgi (who advocated the syncytial reticular organization of neural networks) delivered their Noble prize lectures (Verkhratsky, 2009). The neuronal doctrine eventually was victorious and dominated 20th-century neuroscience and neurology. As frequently happens in science, the views of both Cajal and Golgi were correct, and as we know now the central nervous system (CNS) comprises highly coordinated networks of synaptically connected neurons and gap junction-connected neuroglia, the latter being the syncytial or reticular portion of the nervous tissue (Kiyoshi and Zhou, 2019).