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1. The Future of the Brain: An Excerpt
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By: Rebecca, on 5/7/2007
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Today’s Medical Monday’s post looks forward toward The Future of the Brain. In the excerpt below author Steven Rose explains both the “promise and the perils” of the future of neuroscience.

‘Better Brains’ shouted the front cover of a special edition of Scientific American in 2003, and the titles of the articles inside formed a dream prospectus for the future: ‘Ultimate self-improvement’; ‘New hope for brain repair’; ‘The quest for a smart pill’; ‘Mind-reading machines’; ‘Brain stimulators’; ‘Genes of the psyche’; ‘Taming stress’. These, it seems, are the promises offered by the new brain sciences, bidding strongly to overtake genetics as the Next Big Scientific Thing. (more…)

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