Question: Why do you think it's important to know how our brain works?

Rebecca Dewey answered on 15 Jun 2015:

Our brains control what our bodies do, and most people believe that they are the source of us feeling like real, thinking, talking, personalities. I want to unpick what makes us work – why are we so different from animals? What happens when things go “wrong”? What can we do to prevent things going wrong, or fix it afterwards! Basically I just think the brain is the most exciting, complex organ – we don’t know nearly as much about it as we do the other organs of the body.