Alex Gomez-Marin reviews @PessoaBrain ’s latest book, “The entangled brain”:
“…offers a way to construe the brain as a fully integrated organ, a framework that “while not rare, is also not mainstream among neuroscientists.” A “divide-and-conquer strategy” has produced ever more refined brain maps, he argues, and subsequent leaps from structure to function. However, not only are anatomical brain areas far from simply located units of cognition but, as the subtitle of the book makes explicit, perception, cognition, and emotion are also interweaved.”
“In turn, proper anatomy calls for embryology. And, as tackled later in the book, evolution also informs brain organization. Disciplines, we learn, are entangled too.”
@albertcardona @PessoaBrain Weird, I was just reading about this the other day https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq2591
@markhenick @PessoaBrain That seems to be the direction the neuro medical field is heading towards: “Brain pathologies amplify this variability through disconnections and, consequently, the disintegration of cognitive functions. The prediction of long-term symptoms is now preferentially based on brain disconnections.”
From: “The emergent properties of the connected brain” by Thiebaut de Schotten & Forkel 2022 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq2591#neuroscience
