The secrets of the brain. An evolutionary perspective on neuroscience

Ester Desfilis; Loreta Medina

doi:10.7203/metode.7.21094

The secrets of the brain. An evolutionary perspective on neuroscience

Ester Desfilis, Loreta Medina

Abstract

Understanding the brain is one of the greatest scientific challenges, and a fundamental aspiration of human beings. Why is this organ, made of a little over a kilogram of fatty tissue, so special? The answer is obvious: our brain is the place where thoughts and emotions originate, where our behaviour is generated and our memory lives; that is to say, it is the place our identity inhabits. Our brain cannot be replaced (unlike our kidneys, liver or heart). You are your brain.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.7.21094

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Ester Desfilis

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University of Lleida (Spain).

Serra Húnter Associate Professor of Psychobiology of the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Lleida (Spain) and member of the «Brain Development and Evolution» Research Group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida). Her research career focuses on the study of animal behaviour and its biological basis, especially on the relationships between brain, behaviour and evolution.

Loreta Medina

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University of Lleida (Spain).

Serra Húnter Full Professor of Anatomy and Embryology of the Department of Experimental Medicine of the University of Lleida (Spain). She researches in the Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida (IRBLleida), and has more than eighty publications in the field of neuroscience, particularly in the subfield of evo-devo neurobiology. She leads a multidisciplinary research group with important international contributions.

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