Thursday, November 13, 2014

The limits of science...

As you know, technology has allowed us to make great strides in many different sciences, including Psychology. One branch of Psychology, Neuroscience, as the enormous task of studying the brain. While there has been an explosion of knowledge about how the human brain works, much of it facilitated by increases in technology, there is still more that we do not know then we do know. The following article is one of a series (the others are available via the link as well) regarding current studies of the brain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/science/learning-how-little-we-know-about-the-brain.html?_r=0

It illustrates why Neuroscience remains an exciting but challenging discipline and provides ideas of what the future of research on the brain may look like!

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