The Living Brain Project
In this episode of The Vitals podcast, host Leslie Schlachter discusses with Drs. Brian Kopell and Alexander Charney the creation and expansion of Mount Sinai’s Living Brain Project—
Leslie Schlachter [00:00:00:01 - 00:00:26:39]
Hello and welcome back to the vitals, the Mount Sinai Health System's groundbreaking roundtable video podcast. I'm your host, Leslie Schlachter
, a neurosurgery physician assistant here at the Mount Sinai Hospital. On this episode, we delve into the most sweeping and far reaching neuroscience studies in the history of medicine. The Living Brain Project, we're discussing all the major breakthroughs and what we know about brain science, and what these discoveries mean for you.
Leslie Schlachter [00:00:26:43 - 00:00:45:02]
The patient to walk us through it. We're joined by Mount Sinai doctors, psychiatrist doctor Alex Charney and neurosurgeon Doctor Brian Kopell, who are experts in the field of neuroscience and are helping to lead this new project. Welcome, gentlemen.
Leslie Schlachter [00:00:45:07 - 00:00:54:41]
So, as I said in your intro, you are a psychiatrist. You are a nurse, a neurosurgeon. I am. But what is the difference between neurology and psychiatry since there is so much crossover?
Dr. Brian Kopell [00:00:54:50 - 00:01:35:03]
The way I look at it, I don't see a distinction between neurology and psychiatry. In fact, I think the distinction between the two is a vestige of sort of some anachronistic sort of thinking about the two entities at the end of the day. It's it's all, you know, it's all brain disorders. By the end of the day, and every sort of emergent behavior that comes from the brain, you know, is, is, you know, under the grand rubric of neurology and neuroscience.