About this episode

Nicole Rust discusses the challenges in curing brain diseases and the need for a new perspective in neuroscience.

A promise of basic neuroscience research is that the new insights will lead to new cures for brain diseases. But has that happened so far? Today's guest, an accomplished professor of neuroscience, decided to investigate. Her book "Elusive cures: why neuroscience hasn't solved brain disorders - and how we can change that" came out this summer. Here she argues that we need to consider the brain as a complex adaptive system, not as a chain of dominos as in the typical linear thinking.

People in this episode

Host: Gaute Einevoll

Guest: Nicole Rust

Topics covered

• brain diseases
• neuroscience
• cures
• complex adaptive systems
• research

Keywords

• brain diseases
• neuroscience
• cures
• complex systems
• research insights

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Books & works: Elusive cures: why neuroscience hasn't solved brain disorders - and how we can change that

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