By Casey Schwartz — 2015
The emerging field of “neuropsychoanalysis” aims to combine two fundamentally different areas of study—psychoanalysis and neuroscience—for a whole new way of understanding how the mind works.
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A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.