The problem, however, is that headlines claim that we have identified the cause of depression or love or autism or Alzheimer’s, just because an area of the brain lights up in association

This singular anatomical structure, composed entirely of organic compounds and locked for a lifetime in the darkness of the skull, makes possible everything we value about life.

The frontal cortex actually makes neural firing patterns that represent its own representations. In other words, it allows us to think about thinking.