Why dissecting the brain only gives us half its story | Daniel Glaser

Studying the brain in action is better than slicing it up if you want to understand how it worksNews that a man captured and killed the UK’s rarest butterfly reminds us how much biology relies on Wordsworth’s famous line, ‘murdering to dissect’.The obsessive collector appreciates the butterfly’s beauty by killing it and pinning it to a board. In neurobiology, historically, researchers relied on slicing up the brain to understand more about its structure. But ‘