Embrace complexity to improve the translatability of basic neuroscience

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of embracing complexity and heterogeneity in neuroscience research.

Researchers must learn to view heterogeneity as an essential feature of the systems they study and a central consideration in experimental design, not a variable to control for or reduce.

Topics covered

• neuroscience
• experimental design
• heterogeneity

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