From Psychedelics To Alzheimer's, 2016 Was A Good Year For Brain Science

From Psychedelics To Alzheimer’s, 2016 Was A Good Year For Brain Science

Getty Images, Image by Catherine MacBride With a president-elect who has publicly supported the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism, suggested that climate change is a hoax dreamed up by the Chinese, and appointed to his Cabinet a retired neurosurgeon who doesn’t buy the theory of evolution, things might look grim for science. Yet watching Patti Smith sing “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” live streamed from the Nobel Prize ceremony in early December to a room full of physicists, chemists and physicians — watching her twice choke up, each time stopping the song altogether, only to push on through all seven wordy minutes of one of Bob Dylan’s most beloved songs — left me optimistic. Taking nothing away from the very real anxieties about future funding and support for science, neuroscience…


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