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Everyone's different: what parts of the brain make our personalities so unique?

  • Written by Perminder Sachdev, Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), School of Psychiatry, UNSW Australia
imageBecause everyone is different, psychologists have long debated how to characterise personality.Szoki Adams/Flickr, CC BY

The brain is key to our existence, but there’s a long way to go before neuroscience can truly capture its staggering capacity. For now though, our Brain Control series explores what we do know about the brain’s...

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