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Volume 8
Journal of Alzheimers Disease & Parkinsonism
ISSN: 2161-0460
Vascular Dementia 2018
February 22-23, 2018
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George Paxinos, J Alzheimers Dis Parkinsonism 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0460-C1-035
Brain & Mind: Who is the puppet and who the puppeteer?
T
he question in the title has social, legal and religious implications. If the mind controls the brain, then there is free will and
its corollaries, dignity and responsibility. You are king in your skull-sized kingdom. You are the architect of your destiny.
If, on the other hand, the brain controls the mind, an incendiary conclusion follows: There can be no free will, no praise, no
punishment and no purgatory. Our brain is the riverbed that holds and channels our stream of consciousness. It is molded
by the family and the culture we were raised in. Dementia will pay an unwelcome visit to many of us at the end of life. It will
disrupt the internal structure of our neurons or their nourishing blood vessels and we will be living evidence the mind is the
product of the brain and has no influence on it.
Biography
George Paxinos has studies at University of California at Berkeley, McGill and Yale. He is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow at Neuroscience
Research, Australia. He has published 51 scientific books and one novel. His
Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates
is the third most cited book in science. He has
served as the President of the Australian Neuroscience Society and of the IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience.
g.paxinos@neura.edu.auGeorge Paxinos
University of New South Wales, Australia