Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping a neurobiology of what makes us us.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.