still in their productive years Dr. Arturo Rosenblueth decided to return to Mexico to promote scientific research in a center of the Polytechnic after he shared the glory with Wierner Norbert and his conception of cybernetics, as can be seen in a beautiful book: The Human Use of Human Beings. is unlikely that there is no state in the minds of Ranulfo Romo this example of faith in their own country and young people are formed in the study of the brain, ie, in neurophysiology, where in 1989 after having studied and researched in Paris, Fribourg (Switzerland) and Johns Hopkins (Baltimore) UNAM joined and participated in the creation, with support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Institute of Cellular Physiology. Ranulfo Romo account in the conference entering the National College on 9 March and completed journey that began as a student and research abroad. Cree Ranulfo Romo scientific work is a very complex human activity. From a very young enjoyed the privilege it is to observe nature with freedom and without time limit. Born in an area (Ures Guadalupe, Sonora, 1954) with harsh climates and therefore the natural adversity has never been employed. While in first year of medicine at the UNAM, where he 19, took a course in neurology and neurosurgery, led by a researcher of the nervous system: Dr. Marcos Velasco, who was asked to accept him in his lab and assist their experiments. He studied in Paris with Jacques Glowinski, with Wolfram Schultz at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and with Vernon Mountcastle at Johns Hopkins University. "At that moment I knew my place was in the study of the neurobiology of perception also had not lost the belief back to my country." In Mexico "remains limited support to research, but my experience and my feelings make me persevere in the idea that also can make excellent science from Mexico. " Throughout the narrative builds Ranulfo Romo you realize how different experiments have led him to understand that, for example, working memory is a mental state that allows us to make conscious events of the past and bring this , and represents a useful process to reflect and make decisions. It is difficult to find a human being who is not interested and fascinated brain function. So the neurosciences are beginning to have a very good extension and the work of neurologists we can present an intelligible: a narrative such as the Sonoran Conference: "Chronic brain." Ranulfo Romo's study was the first to demonstrate causal relationships between neural activity and conscious experience: the brain represents the feelings and turns them into perceptions, memories and decisions. Their findings are key to understanding the human brain, "that in the XXI century we ignore almost everything" and remains Terra incognita. Unlike the rest of the economy, nature in its infinite complexity has undertaken to preserve their secrets, "perhaps because the brain is the basic intelligence, evil, or love, just what makes us different from the rest of Universe and therefore as incomprehensible. " * * * Postscript: It has been in some bookstores DF magazine The Brain (spring 2011), published by the publisher of Discover. Displayed on it the biggest stars of neurophysiology. First, as is natural and logical, Dr. Santiago Ramon y Cajal (from an obscure academic post in Zaragoza, in 1883, at age 31), and then one of the most notable of now: Gerald Edelman, the Institute of Neuroscience in San Diego, California. And they are: VS Ramachandran, Colombian Rodolfo Llinas, Oliver Sacks, Sir Charles Sherrington, Giulio Tononi, Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker. In one of the articles mentioned The Brain "a group of Mexican researchers in 2009 conducted a study in monkeys" by the way of an essay on the subjectivity of the mental time and where bargaining is not mentioned by name-no is the first time, researchers from the Institute of Cellular Physiology, UNAM.
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