If you ask Christof Koch, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, how close we are to understanding our own brains, he scoffs.
“We don’t even understand the brain of a worm,” Koch said.
For the 2019 Brain Awareness Week, we asked Koch and his colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a division of the Allen Institute, to reflect on how much we still don’t know about the brain — our brain unawareness, if you will — and how these research teams are trying to solve those mysteries.
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