Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Gero Miesenbock

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian scientist Gero Miesenbock.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Gero Miesenbock

Gero Andreas Miesenböck is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and Director of the Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (CNCB) at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — © Gero Miesenbock
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
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