How does a healthy brain work?

How does a healthy brain work?

Christopher Reist (Academic Psychiatrist, Co-Author of “Psychiatry”) gives expert video advice on: What are the most common causes of mental disorders? and more...

We really don't how the healthy brain works. It's a real enigma; it's the million dollar question. I think a lot of people imagine that the brain works like a circuit board with various components, interacting and talking to each other. I think that there is some evidence that that occurs, and we certainly know how different parts of the brain are constructed, and the pathways that connect them to other parts of the brain. However, how the brain all works together to create consciousness, or to create the experience of pleasure, that's something that's really eluded us.