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Our Complex Brains

Posted on September 18, 2008

So after a decade or more of modern neuroscience research using fMRI and other advanced imaging scans as well as extensive gene studies, what do we know about the brain? It is a far more complex organ than we previously had imagined. A great article in this week s edition of Newsweek by the editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health letter, Michael Craig Miller, describes the difficulty in understanding emotions in the brain: Last year Drs. Peter J. Freed and J. John Mann, publishing in The American Journal of Psychiatry, reported on the literature of sadness and the brain. In 22 studies, ...

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