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DOI: 10.20517/2347-8659.2016.55
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On the need to unify neuroscience and

physics

Maurits van den Noort , Sabina Lim , Peggy Bosch 3,4
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1 Research Group of Pain and Neuroscience, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, South Korea.
2 Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
3 Psychiatric Research Institute, LVR-Klinik Bedburg-Hau, 47511 Bedburg-Hau, Germany.
4 Centre for Cognition, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands.
Correspondence to: Prof. Maurits van den Noort, Research Group of Pain and Neuroscience, Kyung Hee University, #47 Gyeonghuidae-Gil,
Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul 130-701, South Korea. E-mail: info@mauritsvandennoort.com
How to cite this article: van den Noort M, Lim S, Bosch P. On the need to unify neuroscience and physics. Neuroimmunol Neuroinflammation
2016;3:271-3.
Article history: Received: 11-12-2016 Accepted: 12-12-2016 Published: 26-12-2016

Prof. Maurits van den Noort is a regular professor (Research Group of Pain and Neuroscience) at Kyung Hee
University in Seoul, South Korea. Moreover, he is a visiting professor at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.
He is especially interested in schizophrenia, depression, sleep disorders, fMRI, and TMS.

Neuroscience is a relatively new research field still unsolved, namely, how to unify neuroscience and
that, so far, has resulted in important progress physics? As we will discuss in the present editorial,
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in understanding the physiology, biochemistry, not only is this problem important from a purely
pharmacology, and structure of the vertebrate brain. fundamental, theoretical perspective, but it is also vital
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Because of this progress, spectacular technological for the development of more optimal treatments in
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developments, i.e. positron emission tomography, clinical neuroscience.
functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial
magnetic stimulation (TMS), diffusion tensor imaging, In recent years, we have seen fascinating new
magneto-encephalography, electro-encephalography, discoveries in the field of neuroscience, such as the
etc., and new treatments based on them, such as brain’s dark energy, the existence of a default mode
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high-frequency repetitive TMS (rTMS), deep brain network, etc., and as a result of those discoveries,
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stimulation, etc., have been of great use. However, views on the human brain’s processing and functioning
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despite those technical and clinical successes in have been evolving. For a long time, brain function
neuroscience, in which the advances in physics have was studied by investigating physiological responses
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played a substantial role, one fundamental problem is to environmental demands. However, although this
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