Think about all the things in our life we are taught about or have user manuals for. Most of us were taught how to drive a car and how to operate a computer. When we get a new appliance or device, it generally comes with a user guide so we can learn how to use it. And yet the tool we use all day every day to operate our entire lives - our brain – does not come with a user manual. Luckily there have been some great advances in neuroscience and neuroimaging in the last 40 or

Yesterday a client with an enquiring mind asked me why the hippocampus is named as such, given that we both knew that 'hippo' has its...