Think we know all there is to know about how the brain feels “depression” or “mania” or even “schizophrenia”?
While brain neuroscience has made amazing progress in the past two decades, we still are very much in the dark about how much of the brain actually does its daily work. We have many theories about the brain, but only know the very basics about its functioning.
Discover Magazine has the scoop with the 10 unsolved mysteries of the brain.
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Grohol, J. (2007). 10 Unsolved Mysteries of the Brain. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2007/08/18/10-unsolved-mysteries-of-the-brain/
