BLACKSBURG, Va., April 15 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
The human brain isn't a single instrument, or even one system. It's a vast array of processes, all running at the same time, sometimes even in competition.
"People are really a complicated machinery of many systems running in parallel, and we assume that they are a unified entity because in most people, there are mechanisms to keep all of these separate programs running in a coherent fashion," said neuroscientist and psychiatrist Michael Halassa. "When that coordination breaks down, people can lose contact with reality. It's hard to understand how fragile these mechanisms are until we see somebody experiencing psychosis."
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