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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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