Task Group Summary 6 (The Brain), The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex Systems: Task Group Summaries, 2009, ISBN 0-309-13725-X, National Academies Keck Future Initiative, National Academies Press, Washington DC.

Abstract

The brain is the epitome of complexity. How will understanding the complex, linked interactions among the many types of neurons in the brain lead to knowing how the brain contributes to normal function and susceptibility to neuropsychiatric disease?