The entire relationship between neuroscience and the pharmaceutical industry is also built on the modular model. Typical strategies when it comes to common neurological and psychiatric diseases are to identify one type of receptor in the brain that can be targeted with drugs to solve the whole problem.
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In this way, neuroscience is gradually losing compass on its purported path towards understanding the brain.

Henrik Jörntell
„The Brain: A Radical Rethink Is Needed to Understand It”