PubMed2026
Neuroscientist and neurologist Michael N. Shadlen is a world leader in the neurobiology of decision-making, a field of study he helped establish. His research explores higher brain functions-memory retrieval, reasoning, and multitasking, among others-that he theorizes share underlying mechanisms. His work suggests that a holy grail of neuroscience-the "hard problem" of consciousness, or the mechanism(s) by which physical brain operatio…
PubMed2026
Constantin von Economo was a brilliant neuroscientist whose 33 years of intense productivity are documented in over 4,200 pages of published works. He was best recognized for his notable research on encephalitis lethargica and the detailed cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human cerebral cortex. However, less widely known is that von Economo was also an aviation enthusiast, a skilled balloon and airplane pilot, who held prominent positi…
PubMed2026
Haueis and Colaço avoid referencing "neural activity," instead of speaking "neural activities". This subtlety speaks to a strength of their framework: Their metabolically oriented account helps bypass abstractions and stimulus-response assumptions endemic to traditional neuroscience paradigms. We highlight two advantages of this pivot to "neural activities," and how they pave the way for a unified, metabolically grounded, systems neuro…
PubMed2026
The present paper reexamines the contribution of Mondino de Luzzi (1275-1326) beyond his well-known association with the reintroduction of human dissection in medieval medicine. Focusing on ventricular theory, it explores how Mondino's teaching brought traditional descriptions of the brain into closer contact with the observation of the human body through public dissection. Although his work remained firmly rooted in Galenic and Avicen…