Getting the question right
To solve the big problems in neuroscience you need to ask the right questions, says John Stein – and he knows what they are
You and your team have drawn up a list of the most important questions in neuroscience. Why did you do it?
We’re following in the tracks of David Hilbert, the German mathematician who in 1900 drew up what he thought were the 23 most important problems of mathematics. Hilbert’s work arguably led to the development of computing. I daren’t hope that anything like that might happen [from our work], but we would like something spectacular to come…
