How do we know that we know?
Suh Yoo-hun is one of the trailblazers in Korea’s brain research. / Courtesy of Hong So-hyun Serious efforts initiated to uncover mysteries of human brainBy Jung Min-ho, Kim Eil-chul At a physiological level, humans and animals are remarkably similar. Just like humans, mice and chimpanzees, for example, have organ systems that are nearly identical as those of humans; the same organs that perform the same functions.Of all the physical components of the human body, the brain, especially the cerebral cortex ― the brain’s outer layer of neural tissue ― is pretty much the only one that separates humans from the rest of the living creatures.“Yet much of the human brain remains unknown to scientists,” Suh Yoo-hun, president of the Neuroscience Research Institute (NRI) of Gachon University, said in an interview. “But for the next few decades, I think humans will find answers for some of the mysteries of the most complicated biological structure. Many developed nations, including Korea, are now making serious efforts to do so.”The first, and
Jul 31, 2016
