Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.