clinical psychologist. a body/mind approach to calmer, happier, more successful you. first, what is a neuroscience researcher? somebody who studies the brain, really. in all aspects. neuroscience is kind of a broad term. it can be neuroby ol, neuropsychology. i have a mixed background in both. larry: do you write or teach or both? i have been in the past teaching. and doing research while i was working on my degrees. and education is really the path that i want to take. larry: let s get into the overall topic here of the brain. start with you, dr. pinsky. why does the brain not stop us from doing things we know are wrong? you know, it would make sense if you had, say, an evolutionary point of view that the brain was a perfect instrument that only increased our sur vvivability. but not just trying to decide why the brain isn t a perfect system, in terms of how it operates, how doefs the brain