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June 14, 2012

"I’d been noticing this trend of people becoming fearful of what they perceive to be “incorrect” behaviors. But the thing is, the brain does misbehave. You can manipulate its wires and circuits to do all sorts of things that are not “normal’. And so my question became: is this as bad as we seem to think it is? When communication in the brain is “going wrong”, that actually underpins a lot of the things in world that are truly beautiful and captivating."

— Sarah Caddick is the Neuroscience Advisor to David Sainsbury and a senior advisor to the Gatsby Charitable Foundation—a big funder of scientific research, based in London. She’s also curating the “Misbehaving Beautifully” session at this year’s TEDGlobal conference, which runs June 25-29 in Edinburgh and which I’ll be attending as an official onsite blogger. I spoke to Sarah on the phone to find out more about her plans for her time in charge of the TED stage, and was blown away by her thoughtful approach to the brain, our impressions of it, and where we need to turn what we think we know on its heads. Check out the full Q&A over on the TED blog.

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