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The mysterious brain
How does it comprehend ?
How does it remember ?
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“The mind of man is too small to comprehend itself”
(Saint Augustine, 5 th century)
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“Since Hippocrates, there has been little progress in identifying structures and mechanisms controlling cognitive and emotional activities in the healthy subject, and this progress is even smaller concerning discovery of the causes for alteration of mental functions.”
(Rita Levi MONTALCINI, Nobel Prize for medicine, 1999
Let us explore by looking at the following:
Neurones and synapses
Blood circulation in the brain
Memory and brain: the principal conclusions of biology
Questions annexes
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