The mysteries of the brain are often taken for granted. The average person (and their billions of neurons) is amazing system that adapts to a complex world in quickly and effortlessly. We are still at the first stages of understanding the neurobiology of healthy systems.
However neuroscience chooses not to expolore those everyday mysteries, instead choosing to focus on disfunctions, disorders, and diseases. Those mysteries are no less interesting but have limited application. Successful breakthroughs in the neuroscience of disfunction, disorder, and disease could directly help hundreds (perhaps thousands). Succesful breakthoughs in basic neuroscience could directly help millions (perahaps billions).
That distinction makes my research choices easier.
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