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Sources of Discovery in Neuroscience

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Frank Schmitt has been associated with so many aspects of research on the nervous system that it may be appropriate to do honour to him by trying to look at what has been discovered in neuroscience over the last forty years. This is a vast and indeed impossible task, and I shall make it even larger by trying to examine the general framework within which our science has grown. What have we been trying to do as we researched into the nervous system? What motives led each of us to study this part of the body? Is our work an academic exercise (whatever that may be), or is it to be thought of as an aid to humanity, say in medicine or education? What determines the methods that we use? Clearly the social milieu has an influence on each of us. Are we then slaves of bourgeois capitalism, or marxist or maoist socialism, or of some other ism? Does the system we belong to influence the research that we do?

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