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The idea that we have a body and a mind and that they are two separate things is a fallacy many people believe in. The truth is far more complex as Lisa M Saksida, cognitive neuroscientist, and lecturer in experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge,  points out in recent survey. To celebrate 100 years of Enstien’s  E = MC2, Spiked asked 250 top scientists, if they could teach the world just one thing, what would it be?

Dr Saksia said:
"I wish people understood that there is no mind/brain duality. Specifically, I wish people understood that there is no such thing as a purely psychological disorder. Every event in your psychological life, and therefore every psychological change, is reducible in theory to events and changes in your brain. We should therefore not judge people differently, according to whether they are considered to have a ‘psychological’ as opposed to a ‘neurological’ problem.

Of course, a lack of mind/brain split does not mean that we should abandon all talk of psychology. Psychology and neuroscience are two ways of studying the same thing, and both are essential for understanding the human condition."