Blog: The Brain Dialogues, filtered by tag: Personality

19 Oct 2016

Everyone's Different: What Parts of the Brain Make Our Personalities So Unique?

PROFESSOR PERMINDER SACHDEV, MD, PhD This article was originally published on 30 September 2016 in The Conversation.     The brain is key to our existence, but there’s a long way to go before neuroscience can truly capture its staggering capacity. For now though, our Brain Control series explores what we do know about the brain’s command of six central functions: language, mood, memory, vision, motor skills and personality and what happens when things go wrong. Personality is a broad term describing how people habitually relate to the world and their inner self. After the developmental… Read More