By analogy, an individual brain reflects its culture.
Nonetheless, culture does leave its signature in the circuitry of the individual brain.
"This gives us individual brain patterns involved in pain suffering," he said.
It would be more productive to start small, and study individual brain cells.
Your experience of being human – from thoughts to actions to pathologies to sensations – can be studied in your individual brain with some benefit.
This is undoubtedly the case – but then all human activities impact upon the individual brain as they're happening; this by no means implies a permanent alteration, let alone a heritable one.
Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.
Most scientists at the time considered the mature brain to be a fixed entity; individual brain cells may die, they believed, but function and structure were set in neural concrete, and learning did not alter the brain's anatomy.
MRIs were obtained for each subject for constraining source models to individual brain anatomy.
Linear and volume measurements as well as shape changes for numerous individual brain regions were determined.
It even seems possible to control the firing of individual brain cells.
