The human brain: the final journey

Robert T Knight

doi:10.3389/neuro.01.020.2008

Abstract

The human brain: the final journey

Highlights

While we await enlightenment with respect to the constituting principles of the ‘perhaps most complex entity known to science’, our knowledge of the anatomical, physiological, chemical and computational aspects of humans brain organization has advanced substantially
Bob Knight is the Evan Rauch Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley. He trained in Neurology at UC San Diego from 1976-1978 and did his postdoctoral work in human neurophysiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies from 1978-1980
Neuroplasticity is central to all these concerns and the field of human neuroscience needs to begin to take inroads into how the normal human brain enables cognitive and social processing into the clinic

Summary

Introduction

While we await enlightenment with respect to the constituting principles of the ‘perhaps most complex entity known to science’, our knowledge of the anatomical, physiological, chemical and computational aspects of humans brain organization has advanced substantially. He was a faculty member in the Neurology Department at UC Davis from 1980-1998 and has been in the Psychology Department and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley since 1998. His laboratory employs neuropsychological, neuroimaging and electrophysiologocal methods to understand the neural mechanisms underlying frontal cortex control of distributed neuronal ensembles critical for both cognitive and social behavior.

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