Friday, 4 November 2011

We must ask big brain questions, says neuroscientist

To solve the big problems in neuroscience you need to ask the right questions, says John Stein ? and he knows what they are

You and your team have drawn up a list of the most important questions in neuroscience. Why did you do it?
We're following in the tracks of David Hilbert, the German mathematician who in 1900 drew up what he thought were the 23 most important problems of mathematics. Hilbert's work arguably led to the development of computing. I daren't hope that anything like that might happen [from our work], but we would like something spectacular to come out of it just by posing the right questions.

Why does neuroscience need this list?
Many of us who are looking at how the whole brain works, as opposed to how little bits of it work, worry that reductionism has taken over. We know a ...

Source: http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/19c2caac/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cmg212283650B70A0A0Ewe0Emust0Eask0Ebig0Ebrain0Equestions0Esays0Eneuroscientist0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm

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