It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.