The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
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The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.
Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.
When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.
Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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