After fallow decades, neuroscience is undergoing a renaissance

From your reading of the words on this page, to your memory of breakfast, to the tickle of hair against your skin, your experiences are the work of nerve cells. So are your feelings, chains of reasoning, good and less good habits. So are your anxieties, moods, and the tremblings and lapses of memory which, if they do not afflict you yet, are likely to do so eventually. The whole panoply of human experience can be found in electrochemical pulses passed along and between the 90bn nerve cells, also known as neurons, that make up a person’s brain.