In sickness and in health

By SUSAN GOODMAN

February 5, 2018 21:06

Neurobiologist Professor Idan Segev shares some of his insights into the workings of the human mind.

(From left to right) Prof. Idan Segev, Prof. Haim Sompolinsky and Prof. Eilon Vaadia outside the new Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (photo credit: BRUNO CHARBIT)

From emojis to cookie cutters, the heart is emblematic of love and passion.

The perception of the heart as the generator of emotions dates back millennia and is still heard today in the language we use to describe the heartbreak of unrequited love and the heartache of profound misery. Even memory is relegated to our blood-pumping organ, when we remember new information by heart.

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In sickness and in health

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